- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:40:56 +0100
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- CC: Arthur Barstow <art.barstow@nokia.com>, public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>
On 2011-11-03 16:29, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Nov 2011 07:50:08 -0700, Julian Reschke
> <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
>> On 2011-11-03 05:22, Arthur Barstow wrote:
>>> During the October 31 meeting [1], there was agreement to publish a
>>> Candidate Recommendation of the WebSockets API and this is a Call for
>>> Consensus to do so:
>>>
>>> http://dev.w3.org/html5/websockets/
>>> ...
>>
>> That specification has a new section "Parsing Websocket URLs" which is
>> broken in that it references algorithms in other specs without saying
>> so (see Anne's explanation from yesterday).
>
> It does say so, right in the dependency section.
> ...
That section says:
"2.1 Dependencies
This specification relies on several other underlying specifications.
HTML
Many fundamental concepts from HTML are used by this specification.
[HTML]
WebIDL
The IDL blocks in this specification use the semantics of the
WebIDL specification. [WEBIDL]"
How is a reader supposed to know that "resolve a URL", printed in bold,
refers to a very specific algorithm in the HTML spec?
Best regards, Julian
Received on Thursday, 3 November 2011 15:41:36 UTC