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

[James Graham]

Ian Hickson wrote:

>On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, fantasai wrote:
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>>>>Does this allow relative urls? Please specify explicitly.
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>>>It is specified very explicitly.
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>>Sorry, how about "stated very obviously"? "the IRI token" does not 
>>obviously exclude relative URLs unless one is in the habit of reading 
>>URL-related RFCs.
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>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?
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Because it's identified by people who do read RFCs as an obvious and 
problematic source of confusion for those who don't.

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