Re: A URL API

On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Darin Fisher <darin@chromium.org> wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 6:31 AM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> That sounds good to me. In general I think it would be great if there were
>>>>> standard APIs for URI/IRI construction, parsing and resolution...
>>>>
>>>> Yes, that sounds pretty good to me too.
>>>
>>> This has annoyed me for a while too.  I'll write up a spec.
>>
>> Here's a sketch:
>>
>> https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1r_VTFKApVOaNIkocrg0z-t7lZgzisTuGTXkdzAk4gLU&hl=en
>
> It appears [1] that there are sites out there which use URL as a
> property already, which isn't very surprising.
>
> The good news is that if we ensure that the property is replacable
> then it seems like things will work. So all that should be needed is
> the right WebIDL magic, or right prose, to define that the URL
> property is replaceable.
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=617296

Done.

Adam

Received on Thursday, 9 December 2010 21:13:16 UTC