- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@ebuilt.com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 13:09:38 -0800
- To: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Cc: Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org>, "'Martin Duerst'" <duerst@w3.org>, "'Stefan Eissing'" <stefan.eissing@greenbytes.de>, "'WebDAV'" <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>, uri@w3.org
> But I'd point out that "about:" appears to me to be designed to be > a relative URI; if IE supported "about:", it wouldn't pop up > Communicator's info screen, it would pop up one about IE. Ditto what Martin said -- that is confusing the terminology. A relative URI is a syntax construct (one name relative to another name), not a mapping construct (one location relative to another location). A URI like news:comp.infosystems.www identifies the newsgroup even though the representation retrieved by accessing that newsgroup will depend on context (configuration of NNTP host and the amount of that news feed that has propagated to that host). ....Roy
Received on Friday, 30 November 2001 16:14:38 UTC