Re: Change definition of URL to normatively reference IRI specification using a well-defined interface

On 09.04.2010 10:31, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> On Fri, 09 Apr 2010 10:13:15 +0200, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
> wrote:
>> Specifically, String A is a possibly-relative URI (really a
>> possibly-relative IRI reference with lenient Web Address processing),
>> and String B is an absolute URI that is the base. String A is resolved
>> against String B as a base, though if String A happens to be absolute,
>> then A itself will be returned.
>
> Note that if string A contains a query component with non-ASCII
> characters even though it may appear absolute, resolving it will give
> you a different string, if the character encoding of the document is not
> UTF-8/UTF-16.

I understand the intent, but I think the use of the terms 
"(non-)absolute" and "resolving" as above definitely is going to cause 
confusion.

Best regards, Julian

Received on Friday, 9 April 2010 08:58:43 UTC