Re: ReSpec and https

On Aug 14, 2013, at 12:33 PM, "Markus Lanthaler" <markus.lanthaler@gmx.net> wrote:

> On Wednesday, August 14, 2013 7:20 PM, Ian Jacobs wrote:
>> On Aug 14, 2013, at 12:17 PM, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> wrote:
>>>> And anyhow, couldn't you have respec generate relative URIs starting
> with
>>>> //w3.org/...?  That way they get whichever of http: or https: the
>> original page was fetched with.  -T
>>> 
>>> Not if you're doing local edits, and thus viewing it at a file: url,
>>> as Robin said.
>> 
>> That comes back to the point that perhaps in "editor's draft" mode
>> respec does one thing, then in "ready to publish" mode it does another.
> 
> As Robin already said. We tried a couple of things. All that smartness had
> negative side effects (just look at a copy in a Mercurial repo which is by
> default https) and using https by default doesn't have any AFAICT. So I
> would like to keep https for these two.

I've modified the checker. I think it should support https URIs for the W3C logo and TR styles.

Let me know if it works for you. If so, I'll mention on the chairs list as well.

Ian

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Received on Wednesday, 14 August 2013 21:19:01 UTC