Re: Draft [URL] reference update to informative text from Martynas Jusevičius on 2014-10-10 (www-tag@w3.org from October 2014)

From: Martynas Jusevičius <martynas@graphity.org>
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 14:47:02 +0200
To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
Cc: David Sheets <sheets@alum.mit.edu>, Yehuda Katz <wycats@gmail.com>, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, "www-tag@w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CAE35Vmzzzd3eGYdxGz74tiVsafg-UbLKajZaMunxK3U+QuZ_dQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl> wrote:
>
> 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.
>

Last time browser vendors applied this kind of reasoning we got
<blink> elements, table layouts, and tag soup.
I guess history is meant to repeat itself.

Martynas

Received on Friday, 10 October 2014 12:47:30 UTC