Re: PSA: publishing new WD of URL spec

On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 5:58 PM, Julian Reschke
<julian.reschke@greenbytes.de> wrote:
> It's my understanding that the intent is to actually make technical changes,
> as indicated in:
>
>> This specification documents current RFC 3986 and RFC 3987 handling in
>> contemporary Web browser implementations. As a consequence, this
>> specification is not compatible with those RFCs. It is published for the
>> purpose of providing a stable reference for the HTML5 specification and
>> reflecting current Web browser HTML5 implementations. The W3C Technical
>> Architecture Group expects to continue the work on the URL specification and
>> produce a future version that will attempt to re-align the URL specification
>> with an updated version of RFC 3986 while preserving interoperability.
>
> In which case the WHATWG version wouldn't be "canonical" anymore anyway.

It would be for implementers. Seems ill-advised to implement something
that contains contradictory goals and is bound to be incompatible with
deployed content.


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Received on Thursday, 11 September 2014 16:14:08 UTC