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

Julian Reschke julian.reschke at gmx.de
Wed Jul 20 10:14:24 PDT 2005


James Graham wrote:
>> The problem is if I state one thing explicitly, then people will want 
>> something else stated ("does it allow IDNs?" "does it allow UTF-8 
>> characters?" "does it allow fragment identifiers?"). Why should one 
>> aspect of something be redundantly stated?
>>  
>>
> Because it's identified by people who do read RFCs as an obvious and 
> problematic source of confusion for those who don't.

Hm.

What makes you think they will read this spec, but not that RFC? It's 
really hard to optimize specs for people who do not read specs...

Best regards,

Julian



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