On 2012-08-21 16:45, Larry Masinter wrote: > I don't care too much about the venue question. I’m just concerned about reliability and stability of the web. > > I think the problem with web+XXX (if I understand the proposal, is there actually a document?) is that they're not URIs in any reasonable sense, won't work right if bookmarked, emailed, used as a URI anywhere else, or used as a "URI" rather than just some string that happens to be found in an href. All we have is what the HTML5 spec says about registerProtocol. And yes, I believe they are supposed to be real URIs, bookmarkable, and usable outside web browsers. > And *that* problem is that the +XXX isn't globally unique, so there's an opportunity for conflict. f two different libraries RegisterProtocolHander with the same scheme, they'll step on each other. HTML5 pretends these are URIs, so yes, uniqueness depends on the URI scheme registry. > ... Best regards, JulianReceived on Tuesday, 21 August 2012 14:55:24 GMT
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