[whatwg] [Web Forms 2.0] type="url"

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Tue Jun 28 03:20:19 PDT 2005


On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, fantasai wrote:
>
> # url
> #    An IRI, as defined by [RFC3987] (the IRI token, defined in RFC 3987
> #    section 2.2). UAs could, for example, offer the user URIs from his
> #    bookmarks. (See below for notes on IDN.) The value is called url (as
> #    opposed to iri or uri) for consistency with CSS syntax and because
> #    it is generally felt authors are more familiar with the term "URL"
> #    than the other, more technically correct terms.
> 
> Does this allow relative urls? Please specify explicitly.

It is specified very explicitly.

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