[whatwg] Web Addresses vs Legacy Extended IRI
Julian Reschke
julian.reschke at gmx.de
Mon Mar 23 03:31:01 PDT 2009
Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>> I wasn't talking of "browser implementations of feeds", but feed
>> readers in general.
>
> Well yes, and a subset of those is browser based. Besides that, most
> feed readers handle HTML. Do you think they should have two separate URL
> parsing functions?
Yes, absolutely.
>>>> Don't leak out workarounds into areas where they aren't needed.
>>> I'm not convinced that having two ways of handling essentially the
>>> same thing is good.
>>
>> It's unavoidable, as the relaxed syntax doesn't work in many cases,
>> for instance, when whitespace acts as a delimiter.
>
> Obviously you would first split on whitepace and then parse the URLs.
> You can still use the same generic URL handling.
In which case IRI handling should be totally sufficient.
Best regards, Julian
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