Re: "Web addresses in HTML 5" for review (ISSUE-56 urls-webarch)

Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:56:59 +0100, Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org> wrote:
>> Attached find a draft for ACTION-68
>> "try factoring URI/URL stuff out as a separate draft"
>>   http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/actions/68
>>
>>
>> (for my reference: it's rev 45:ff09a2b4d3ac )
> 
> I just have a small editorial comment for now. It would be nice if the 
> document was agnostic of HTML5. E.g. XMLHttpRequest requires identical 
> handling of URLs and I am pretty sure CSS does too. (And very likely 
> every specification that deals with them and user agents implement, but 
> I have not tested that exhaustively.)

Are you sure XMLHttpRequest needs the same handling?

I recall testing with (non-URI) IRIs some time ago, and they were simply 
not supported.

> ...

BR, Julian

Received on Wednesday, 18 March 2009 14:45:31 UTC