Re: Minor comments on Widgets

Marcos - Addison's comments were submitted during the comment period of 
a proposal to publish a new LCWD of this spec.

On Mar/17/2011 7:21 AM, ext Marcos Caceres wrote:
> (accidentally hit reply instead of reply all, so sending again)
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> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Phillips, Addison<addison@lab126.com>  wrote:
>> Hello Webapps WG,
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>> (these are personal comments)
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>> I happened to be referring to the Widget spec this morning and noticed a few minor items that I feel should be brought to your attention.
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>> 1. Section 5.3 (Zip Relative Paths). The ABNF defines "language-range". I think this is not desirable. Language ranges are input to the matching algorithm (i.e. the user's request). You don't really want paths like "locale/de-*-1901". You want concrete paths here and "*" has no business in a path. Ideally you would reference the "Language-Tag" production in BCP 47 (RFC 5646). However, since it is a large production and you don't probably want to directly incorporate it, you could incorporate the "obs-language-tag" production in the same document instead. You should still say that language tags used in paths "must" be valid language tags according to the more formal production.
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> Valid point. I don't think anyone will complain if we change this.
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>> 2. Section 5.3. The same production corresponds to BCP 47 (RFC 4647) "extended-language-range", although it only allows the tags to use lowercase letters. I really feel that mixed case is not that difficult to support and that it will save many developers from inexplicable silent failures.
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> This is true... however, most engines implemented the case sensitive
> requirement (implementers had concerns about Unicode case
> comparisons)). I think it might be hard to fix this one without
> breaking a bunch of runtimes and maybe content.... need to think about
> it.
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>> 3. There is no mention of case sensitivity of filenames anywhere that I can find. You should define if filenames are case sensitive (or not) and what is meant by "case sensitive" if it is supported (just ASCII case? Unicode default case mapping?)
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> Search for "case-sensitively" or "case-sensitive" instead. The
> case-sensitive requirement on files comes a fair bit.
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