- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 11:02:28 +0200
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- CC: "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>
On 2012-08-05 22:03, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > ... > == Architectural issues: > > Survey commenters objected to the architectural design of the web+ > prefix approach to extending valid URI schemes for > registerProtocolHandler. One wrote, of the "Disambiguate the web+ > prefix" proposal: > > It does not address the problem of overloading the naming of URI > schemes with semantics. Doing this in general is problematic as it > doesn't scale; once a prefix is defined this extension point is > essentially taken. > > The only specific problem identified was "doesn't scale". However, > it was not explained what scaling means in this regard, nor was evidence > provided that the feature doesn't scale. Other aspects of Internet > protocols and the Web platform are based on name registries of various > sorts, so some evidence would need to be provided for why it would be > a problem in this case. > ... I thought that was obvious. It doesn't "scale" in that each URI scheme name has a *single* prefix, thus what HTML5 tries to do here can not be done again by another spec. Best regards, Julian
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