Re: HTML5/IRI: "resolve a URL"

On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:57:48 -0800, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>  
wrote:
>> From <http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#urls>:
>
> "To resolve a URL to an absolute URL  relative to either another  
> absolute URL or an element, the user agent must use the resolve a Web  
> address  algorithm defined by the Web addresses specification.  
> [WEBADDRESSES]"
>
> WEBADDRESSES (<http://www.w3.org/html/wg/href/draft>), when defining  
> this, has lots of references to the HTML "Document" object.
>
> These aren't going to end up in IRIbis, right? So it appears that IRIbis  
> will not be able to replace WEBADDRESSES as a reference completely. Does  
> stuff need to move back from WEBADDRESSES into HTML5?

Yes. That should probably be sorted out when iri-bis is somewhat more  
stable.


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Anne van Kesteren
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