- From: Delfi Ramirez <delfin@segonquart.net>
- Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2017 19:35:20 +0200
- To: David Kendal <me@dpk.io>
- Cc: Patrick Dark <whatwg.at.whatwg.org@patrick.dark.name>, whatwg@whatwg.org
Hi all: Agreed, David Thank you very uch for pointing us to the URL https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/#basic-fetch BTW: It's not our mission to discourage users ( netters) to --ehem -- use a modern browser featured in her/his personal device for personal purposes ( as it is the exercise to access internal HTML files, linked internally or externally either to JSON data, text data --uh that old CDROMs -- or another linked HTML files -- CSS and jS comes to mind here -- ). This discouragement, seems quite the opposite as what is defined in the spec "_For now, unfortunate as it is, file and ftp URLs [6]__ are left as an exercise for the reader._" Just mumbling. Cheers. --- Delfi Ramirez -- At Work My digital signature [1] 0034 633 589231 delfin@segonquart.net [2] twitter: @delfinramirez [3] IRC: segonquart Skype: segonquart [4] http://segonquart.net http://delfiramirez.info [5] On 2017-04-14 18:58, David Kendal wrote: > On 11 Apr 2017, at 19:50, Patrick Dark <whatwg.at.whatwg.org@patrick.dark.name> wrote: > >> The "world wide web" is the user-facing portion of the Internet. Files >> on a CD or USB drive are not part of that. > > You are continuing to dodge this problem by redefining the WHAT WG's > responsibilities. Please don't do that. > > If you can't take my word for it, how about the inventor of the > web itself? <https://gitter.im/solid/chat?at=58ed246d408f90be66aeeb30> > (Thanks to a correspondent, who I presume prefers to remain unnamed, > for sending this to me off-list.) > > As the divinely-appointed guardians of the HTML spec, the responsibility > of the WHAT WG is to ensure that HTML is a useful platform for documents > and applications wherever HTML files can be opened from, whether that's > HTTP(S), FTP, or local files. Where 'the web' starts and stops in this > spectrum of possible protocols is of no import. > > On that note I also see that the Fetch API has stubbed out the > specification of file: and ftp: URL semantics for definition in the > future at <https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/#basic-fetch>. > > -- > dpk (David P. Kendal) · Nassauische Str. 36, 10717 DE · http://dpk.io/ > In politics, obedience and support are the same thing. > -- Hannah Arendt Links: ------ [1] http://delfiramirez.info/public/dr_public_key.asc [2] mail:%20delfin@segonquart.net [3] https://twitter.com/delfinramirez [4] skype:segonquart [5] http://delfiramirez.info [6] https://url.spec.whatwg.org/#concept-url
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