- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:22:22 +0100
- To: Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>
- CC: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Aryeh Gregor wrote: > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote: >> I don't see any kind of interoperability here, even not for the simplest >> test cases. > > Real-world usage is often simpler than even the simplest test-cases. > Typical URLs contain no spaces, no Unicode characters, and no weird > stuff like multiple hash characters. These APIs are realistically > useful even if they start to become unreliable for slightly less > common types of URLs. Even if they don't agree whether the path starts with "/" or not? >> Maybe it's time to deprecate this mess (does anybody use this?) > > Yes, definitely. I can find a whole bunch of uses in MediaWiki, for > instance. The existing interface will have to be specced anyway. The question is how to spec it. Right now the UAs vary *a lot*. I recommend that UA implementers have a look at the test results and provide feedback whether they want to change their implementations. Best regards, Julian
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