- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 16:29:49 +0000 (UTC)
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, fantasai wrote:
> > >
> > > Does this allow relative urls? Please specify explicitly.
> >
> > It is specified very explicitly.
>
> Sorry, how about "stated very obviously"? "the IRI token" does not
> obviously exclude relative URLs unless one is in the habit of reading
> URL-related RFCs.
The problem is if I state one thing explicitly, then people will want
something else stated ("does it allow IDNs?" "does it allow UTF-8
characters?" "does it allow fragment identifiers?"). Why should one aspect
of something be redundantly stated?
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