- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 23:23:59 +0100
- To: Graham Klyne <GK@ninebynine.org>
- Cc: uri@w3.org, uri-review@ietf.org
* Graham Klyne wrote: >This gets closer to the nub. While I agree that it does not imply "retrieval", >I do think that obtaining a "representation" is implied, and it the nature of >this representation -- what is it a representation *of* -- that I am questioning. >What I'm trying to do here is establish common uses of javascript: URI-alike >things correspond to URI dereferencing. Anything else would, I think, violate >the principle of least surprise -- when I type a URI into a browser address bar, >or click on a hyperlink, I think its commonly held that the browser performs a >dereferencing operation on the URI. When you click on one of the following links, <a href='news:de.comp.text.xml'>... <a href='mailto:example@example.org'>... <a href='mailto:example@example.org?body=...'>... <a href='telnet://example.org'>... <a href='irc://irc.example.org/channel'>... <a href='tel:555-5555'>... would you say your browser obtains representations? -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Weinh. Str. 22 · Telefon: +49(0)621/4309674 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 68309 Mannheim · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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