Hey,<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/8/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ian Hickson</b> <<a href="mailto:ian@hixie.ch">ian@hixie.ch</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Sat, 20 May 2006, Aankhen wrote:<br>><br>> On a perhaps related note, is there a reason for calling it toDataURL()<br>> instead of toDataURI()?<br><br>Basically for consistency with the rest of the platform (starting with
<br>CSS's url() form). I can't keep track of what URIs are called these days.<br>First it was URLs, then URIs, then there were URNs and shortly after that<br>the correct term was URLs again, then URL was obsolete altogether and URI
<br>was the right term; then we had IDN and IRIs, and more recently we've<br>started having XRIs... Whatever. Authors don't need this. "URL" is fine.</blockquote><div><br>I've hear "normal people" saying "URL" too. (It seems to have entered "common language".)
<br><br>But I've never heard a "normal person" saying any of the others -- saying "URI", "URN", "IDN", "IRI", or "XRI".<br><br><br>See ya<br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> Whether the answer is yes or no, it might be a good idea to tweak that<br>> section slightly to be more consistent, since it seems to use URI and<br>> URL interchangably.<br><br>Fixed, thanks.<br><br>--<br>Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL
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