- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
- Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 14:30:14 +0200
- To: David Sheets <sheets@alum.mit.edu>
- Cc: Yehuda Katz <wycats@gmail.com>, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, "www-tag@w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>
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. -- https://annevankesteren.nl/
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