- From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:38:11 -0400
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>, URI <uri@w3.org>
Ian Hickson scripsit:
> 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.)
Fair enough. Use "HTML URL" a few times, then, particularly in the
context of the definition of validity. The RFC doesn't own "URL" any
more than it owns "valid".
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