- From: Graham Klyne <gk@ninebynine.org>
- Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 13:01:49 +0100
- To: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>, public-iri@w3.org
I'm sure your right. This wasn't a particularly helpful comment on my part and should probably be closed without further action. #g -- At 18:25 12/05/04 +0900, Martin Duerst wrote: >Hello Graham, > >This is my last reply. Many thanks again for your comments. >This is issue needAPI-34. > >At 12:02 04/05/10 +0100, Graham Klyne wrote: > >>Finally, I find myself being vaguely concerned about the complexity and >>subtlety of this specification. I expect that a lot of software will be >>written by programmers who are not aware of the various subtle >>implications of I18N issues. As such, will it be a realistic expectation >>for such programmers to write robust interoperable software based on this >>specification. Or, another way of addressing this concern: to what >>extent can the various subtleties described here be wrapped up in a >>library that can be used successfully by a programmer who is not expert >>in I18N issues? >> >>(I think part of the difficulty here is the extent to which IRIs straddle >>wire-protocol and user presentation concerns. I don't normally advocate >>the idea of standardized APIs, but wonder if this is a case for which >>defining a common API might help to flush out some of these concerns.) > >We have already seen implementations of IRIs in various browsers >(Opera, Safari, IE (with the exception of IDN), Amaya, Netscape). >Nobody from these implementers has every mentioned the need for >an API, at least not to me. > >In many cases I guess APIs for URIs are reused by making use >of the fact that IRIs essentially work the same way as URIs, >and in many programming languages these days representing >Unicode is no longer that much of a problem. > >There may be other applications than browser that have other >needs. But I'm not sure we could guess their needs now. > >If there turns out to be a need for an API in some area in >the future, I'm confident this can be addressed as a separate >project. > > >Regards, Martin. ------------ Graham Klyne For email: http://www.ninebynine.org/#Contact
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