- From: Smylers <Smylers@stripey.com>
- Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:03:48 +0100
- To: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Julian Reschke writes: > Smylers wrote: > > > ... And I'd've thought that for many people "URL" simply means "the > > internet address you can type in a web browser" (since this is by > > far the most common situation in which people encounter URLs) -- in > > which case, their beliefs about what a URL is comes from browser > > behaviour, not a spec. For these people the HTML 5 definition is > > actually an improvement, since it will result in the spec matching > > their existing beliefs! ... > > That's true, but those people certainly are not the intended audience, > for this spec, right? I would have thought that many web designers would be in this cateogory -- a URL is something you put in <a href="..."> or <img src="..."> or url(...) in CSS. They know, loosely, what URLs are. Changing to a term like HRL would therefore be confusing. Smylers
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