- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:20:14 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Jerome Louvel <contact@noelios.com>
- Cc: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org, uri@w3.org, rest-discuss@yahoogroups.com
On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Jerome Louvel wrote: > > Even though the URI template RFC is not finalized yet, we already have a > complete support for it, on the server-side, in the Restlet framework. > We happily use them for our URI-based routing and I think they add a lot > of expressiveness while keeping a simple syntax. Usage example: > http://www.restlet.org/tutorial#part11 > > They are also supported in WADL, the RESTful description language, and > in the OpenSearch specification. Extending their usage to HTML forms > sounds like a logical and useful step. It seems to me like URI templates can be trivially done from script and from the server side already; given the poor backwards-compatibility story of URI templates, what do we gain from adding it to the language? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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