- From: Jonathan Robie <Jonathan.Robie@SoftwareAG-USA.com>
- Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 17:16:32 -0500
- To: xml-uri@w3.org
Yes. Well, mostly. To me, relative URIs really are broken. On the other hand, when I'm developing a new application, I may not have a unique URI that I will ever want to expose outside my company. There are URIs on my laptop that are none of your business, since they are used for experimental purposes and will never be exposed to the world. Personally, I use strings like "c:/spot/run", "c:/dick/run", etc., which I know are not unique, but work fine for disambiguation as long as I'm just playing on my laptop, and don't require me to think seriously about what URIs can be guaranteed to be unique. So I'd like relative URIs to give me a dire warning at least. I suppose if we all agreed to ban them altogether, I could simply change the strings I use for playing, e.g. "http://www.softwareag.com/c/spot/run" or whatever. Jonathan
Received on Monday, 15 May 2000 17:14:32 UTC