Re: Use of 'behind' when referencing URI portions

On Wed, 6 Jul 2011, Chris Double wrote:

> The media fragment specification has the following text in section 2.1:
>
> "URI fragment = anything behind a "#" in a URI
> URI query = anything behind a "?" and before a "#" in a URI"
>
> I find the use of the word 'behind' to be ambiguous as to whether it
> refers to the left hand side or right hand side of the portion of the
> URI in question. To me, behind means 'to the left of'. In particular
> use of 'behind' and 'before' for the URI query portion seems
> confusing. Can we use 'after' or a similar word?

It might be better to cite directly rfc3986
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-3.4 for query
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-3.5 for fragment, instead of
crafting new wording.

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         ~~Yves

Received on Wednesday, 6 July 2011 08:13:44 UTC