On Wednesday, July 2, 2003, 11:55:03 PM, Bill wrote: Bdh> Chris Lilley wrote: >> I am trying to find something more constructive to suggest than 'its >> broken, stop doing that'. This functionality appears to be in >> widespread deployment. Bdh> 'Useless outside the JDK' comes to mind. Sure, but if its not a URI then its useless inside the JDK as well. Bdh> You'd think 'that's not a URL, sorry' should be sufficient, Not really. 'Thats wrong and you don't need the functionality' is nowhere near as convincing as 'thats wrong and here is a standards-compliant and more interoperable way to get the functionality. Besides, it came up in an outside the JDK context. Bdh> but Java hasn't had a great track record re URLs/URIs. Details welcome. Bdh> Bill de hÓra -- Chris mailto:chris@w3.orgReceived on Wednesday, 2 July 2003 20:05:36 GMT
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