Re: [widgets] Widgets URI scheme... it's baaaack!

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Arve Bersvendsen <arveb@opera.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 22 May 2009 15:25:40 +0200, Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org> wrote:
>
>> I'm curious to learn where the requirement that "Must not allow
>> addressing resources outside a widget" came from?  Can you point to a
>> precedent for such a restriction in any other protocol?  I remember
>> TimBL writing something to the effect of "Anywhere you can use a URI,
>> you can use any URI", possibly in his design issues, but I can't find
>> a reference right now.
>
> The point here is that the widget URI scheme is only supposed to be used to
> synthesise an origin so nodes in the DOM can be sensibly resolved for
> resources inside the package.

Ah, right, I didn't realize it was related to a discussion Marcos and
I had last year;

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2008OctDec/thread.html#msg50

I thought he had (somewhat grudgingly) accepted that way (the use of
relative references) forward, as IIRC, the widget: scheme idea was
dropped about that time.  Has some new requirement emerged since then
that makes relative references an undesirable option?

Mark.

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