- From: pat hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 23:22:15 -0500
- To: Aaron Swartz <me@aaronsw.com>
- Cc: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
>On Wednesday, June 20, 2001, at 05:53 PM, pat hayes wrote: > >>>-- have you ever opened up an HTML page in your browser without a URL? >> >>Actually yes, I do it all the time with pages I have saved as files >>and given private file names to. > >Exactly, and those file names created a URL for the document! No, they did not conform to the W3C rules for URLs, and the files are not accessible on the Web. (They are on a Zip disc in my desk drawer.) Not all file names are URLs. File names have been used long before anyone thought of URLs. >>HTML is only hypertext, after all, nothing magical. > >Perhaps not, but URIs are quite neat. URIs are not even well-defined, as far as I can tell (apparently, unicorns have URIs, for example) ; and in any case we were talking about URLs. Pat --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola, FL 32501 (850)202 4440 fax phayes@ai.uwf.edu http://www.coginst.uwf.edu/~phayes
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