- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:07:09 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: uri@w3.org
On Wed, 25 Jun 2008, Julian Reschke wrote: > > > > Indeed. However, valid pages aren't the only pages that we want > > interoperability for. > > True. > > But it seems to me it's much more important to come up with a > interoperability for *valid* pages than invalid ones. I don't know which is more important, but in any case, my intent is to come up with interoperability for both, so it doesn't really matter. > So documenting the current mess with respect to handling IRIs may be > useful for browser implementors, but fixing the issue in a sane way > would be much more useful for everybody else (yes, not in the short-term > future). To get to the long-term we have to go through the short-term first. We'll never get to the long term if there's no path through the short-term that is compatible with existing content. (On the long term, I figure we'll just use UTF-8 exclusively, which would pretty much solve the problem, and is compatible with a short-term strategy like the one described in HTML5 now.) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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