Re: Draft [URL] reference update to informative text

On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 2:25 PM, David Sheets <sheets@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> In terms of the technical architecture of the Web, what widespread
> effect do you foresee occurring from this normative expansion of the
> space of URLs? Do you have plans to relate the New URL to the previous
> standards?

URLs are not new. URLs with spaces in them are not new either. Most
software dealing with web content knows this. Standards might not, but
then they are often behind on the facts.


> If I have a distributed system which needs to process URLs, should I
> upgrade all of it to match browsers because browsers tolerate behavior
> observed in 0.00001% of content?

Citation needed.


> What happens when someone reads about
> New URLs and then tries to give my system a URL only recently
> described by the specification?

That depends on the definition of my system, as you well know.


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Received on Friday, 10 October 2014 12:30:44 UTC