[whatwg] [wf2] type="url"

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Wed Mar 23 04:39:17 PST 2005


On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, J. King wrote:
> 
> Personally I'd elect for "url".  Even though I prefer the term URI (and 
> really dislike the term IRI), "url" is what CSS uses, and there's a lot 
> to be said for consistency when authoring documents.

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Mikko Rantalainen wrote:
> 
> I think pretty much anybody that could use the feature has some idea what
> "url" means. They don't know that "mailto:user at domain.com" isn't url but that
> doesn't matter a little bit.

Ok, would anyone object to us changing it to type="url"? I don't feel 
strongly about this.

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