- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 10:37:32 -0700
- To: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
- Cc: Norman Walsh <Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM>, www-tag@w3.org
Tim Berners-Lee wrote:
> I suppose the thing is to be aware of that process and to just not
> make assumptions that are not licensed by the specs.
> The TAG needs to say this "stick to the channel" in general, and then
> go around putting buoys noteworthy points, be they
> center-channel fairway buoys ("The character encoding you can
> rely on, it must be correct") or markers of notorious rocks
> ("any .html on the end of a URI path means nothing - do not use it").
+1
Interestingly, more than one of the blog-popularity ranking services
completely falls over with www.tbray.org/ongoing because I *don't* have
.html at the end of the individual entries; it sees this and cleverly
puts a '/' at the end. It's a real problem. -Tim
Received on Wednesday, 24 September 2003 13:39:38 UTC