- From: Justin James <j_james@mindspring.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:13:33 -0400
- To: "'Julian Reschke'" <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: "'Mark Baker'" <distobj@acm.org>, "'Michael\(tm\) Smith'" <mike@w3.org>, <public-html@w3.org>
-----Original Message----- From: public-html-request@w3.org [mailto:public-html-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Julian Reschke Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 2:29 PM To: Justin James Cc: 'Mark Baker'; 'Michael(tm) Smith'; public-html@w3.org Subject: Re: heads-up about "new" URLs section in HTML5 editor's draft >> Most people can't tell the difference between a URI and a URL and use the >> terms interchangeably. Heck, I can barely discern the distinction most of >> the time. Do we really want to make things even more confusing? > You mean, more confusing than calling things a URL which are not URLs, > let alone URIs? That only causes confusion for the 1% - 3% of developers who not only know and understand the distinction, but actually care, and for whom the distinction is important because a sense of what is proper. For the real of the programmers out there, this is not a point of confusion in the slightest. :) If HTML 5 is all about ratifying the "status quo" on stuff like AJAX, let's go whole hog and do it right. Let's eliminate the URL/URI distinction. J.Ja
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