On Jun 25, 2008, at 23:46, John Cowan wrote: > Ian Hickson scripsit: > >> I need a term to use in the HTML5 spec which means "a string used to >> identify a resource", and which can then be defined to be valid if it >> matches the conditions listed above. The term has to be one that >> authors >> would immediately recognise as being intended to be URI-like, yet >> without >> conflicting with existing definitions. If you disagree with the use >> of the >> term "URL" for this purpose, do you have any alternative suggestions? > > How about HTML Resource Identifier, or HRI? I think we should call browser-compatible Web addresses "URLs", because that's what people outside the IETF and W3C circles colloquially call them and that's what's used in the CSS syntax (url(...)). Minting yet another *RI abbreviation seems silly, when through the years URL has stuck in common usage. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/Received on Thursday, 26 June 2008 06:53:05 GMT
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