- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:50:41 +0000 (UTC)
- To: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
- Cc: URI <uri@w3.org>
On Wed, 25 Jun 2008, John Cowan wrote: > Ian Hickson scripsit: > > > I need a term to use in the HTML5 spec which means "a string used to > > identify a resource", and which can then be defined to be valid if it > > matches the conditions listed above. The term has to be one that authors > > would immediately recognise as being intended to be URI-like, yet without > > conflicting with existing definitions. If you disagree with the use of the > > term "URL" for this purpose, do you have any alternative suggestions? > > How about HTML Resource Identifier, or HRI? I think that the confusion of introducing a new term would be greater than the confusion of reusing URL. People intuitively know what a "URL" basically is, and they know what an "address" is. They don't know what an "HRI" is and I think that would work against the readability of the spec. (This is especially important for this particular term since it appears all over the place in HTML5.) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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