Re: XMLHttpRequest Comments from W3C Forms WG

On 12/17/09 2:10 PM, Klotz, Leigh wrote:
> I'd be surprised if some of these aren't terms already defined elsewhere.  "URL" for example, is surely not given a different definition in HTML5 from the definition in RFC 3986.

As it happens, it is.  There are various strings that are defined to not 
be a URL in RFC 3986 terms (as in, don't match the production) but are 
used on the web in practice and which handling needs to be defined for.

In other words, RFC 3986 is pretty well divorced from web reality; a UA 
trying to actually implement it ends up not compatible with the web.

-Boris

Received on Thursday, 17 December 2009 22:18:08 UTC