[whatwg] [wf2] type="url"

James Graham jg307 at cam.ac.uk
Wed Mar 23 04:51:02 PST 2005


Olav Junker Kjær wrote:

> Ian Hickson wrote:
>
>> Ok, would anyone object to us changing it to type="url"? I don't feel 
>> strongly about this.
>
>
> Consistency with CSS is a very good point. URL is more widely known 
> and used than URI, and since both are technically incorrect anyway (if 
> the type is actually IRI), go for URL.
>
I agree. URL is the only term that will be understood by the vast 
majority of authors.

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