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

On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 17:49 +0000, Ian Hickson wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Dan Connolly 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
> 
> Awesome!
> 
> Can we get the working group to publish this document so that we can 
> remove the relevant bits from the HTML5 spec?

Here's hoping... I'm not aware of any reason why not.

> Quick comments:
> 
> There appears to be an editorial issue here:
> 
> | all characters with codepoints greater than or equal to U+007% (i.e. 
> | U+007?F and all non-ASCII characters in the w)
> 
> Also earlier on there are some &ft; entities that look like they should be 
> >.

Oops; right...

> Incidentally, when it comes time to write the test suite, I recommend 
> using the <a> element's URL decomposition attributes as a good way to test 
> this stuff.

OK, I'll look into that.

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