Re: Error handling in URIs

Ian Hickson scripsit:

> I agree entirely that this kind of error handling stuff shouldn't be in 
> HTML5. The only times HTML5 defines error handling for things outside the 
> "HTML" language itself is when the relevant specs don't define their own 
> error handling, and the relevant groups refuse to do anything about it.

It's only "error handling" when seen against the abstract background of
RFC-3986-centricity.  Otherwise, it is the HTML5 extension of URIs:
how do HTML5 browsers convert arbitrary Unicode strings to URIs?
The answer is different from RFC 3987, but no worse.

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Received on Wednesday, 25 June 2008 22:48:41 UTC