- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:52:23 +0300
- To: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
- Cc: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, Charles Lindsey <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk>, Martin Duerst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>, "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>, Frank Ellermann <hmdmhdfmhdjmzdtjmzdtzktdkztdjz@gmail.com>, URI <uri@w3.org>
On Jun 25, 2008, at 23:46, 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 we should call browser-compatible Web addresses "URLs", because that's what people outside the IETF and W3C circles colloquially call them and that's what's used in the CSS syntax (url(...)). Minting yet another *RI abbreviation seems silly, when through the years URL has stuck in common usage. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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