[whatwg] [wf2] type="url"

Dean Edwards dean at edwards.name
Wed Mar 23 05:15:10 PST 2005


I've never known this group to be in such agreement! Jim? ;-)
-dean

James Graham wrote:
> 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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