- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:29:37 +0000 (UTC)
- To: "Barclay, Daniel" <daniel@fgm.com>
- Cc: public-html-comments@w3.org
On Fri, 11 Jul 2008, Barclay, Daniel wrote: > > Section 4.13, Interfaces for URI manipulation, uses non-standard > terminology for the components of a URI. > > For example, it uses the term "protocol"; RFC 3986 uses the term > "scheme." > > The HTML 5 specification should use the terminology defined by the > current standard for URIs. This section is just specifying (for the first time) an API that has been implemented in browsers for a decade and a half at least. We couldn't possibly change the attribute names here, they are locked into the Web's legacy. Notice how only the attribute names use these old terms; all the actual prose and requirements use the right terminology (with the exception of refering to URLs as defined by HTML5 instead of URIs or IRIs, but that's another issue). -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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