Re: A very preliminary draft of a URL spec

2013-05-21 Thread Marcos Caceres
On Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Stian Soiland-Reyes wrote: > If you go for standardizing an API for dealing with URIs (probably a > good idea if you go down this route) - then I would recommend being > inspired by the API of Java's java.net.URI > > http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api

Re: A very preliminary draft of a URL spec

2013-05-21 Thread Stian Soiland-Reyes
y the above is IRIs (probably as the API predates IRIs). A defined API would have to be much more precise about which elements allow which international characters. On 13 May 2013 04:34, Charles McCathie Nevile wrote: > Hi, > > to close ACTION-693 I scribbled some stuff into a very pre

Re: A very preliminary draft of a URL spec

2013-05-20 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Melvin Carvalho wrote: > It's tempting (especially on the whatwg ML) to think that the browser is the > web. But the URL is used in many contexts in and outside the browser. To date, http://url.spec.whatwg.org/ has had more feedback from outside the browser space

Re: A very preliminary draft of a URL spec

2013-05-20 Thread Arthur Barstow
On 5/20/13 12:54 PM, ext Melvin Carvalho wrote: On 13 May 2013 05:34, Charles McCathie Nevile > wrote: I hope there will be a bugzilla component really very soon, but I neglected to request one so far. Please do post the link to the issue tracker when it's

Re: A very preliminary draft of a URL spec

2013-05-20 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 13 May 2013 05:34, Charles McCathie Nevile wrote: > Hi, > > to close ACTION-693 I scribbled some stuff into a very preliminary draft > of a URL spec: > <https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/**webapps/raw-file/81f24bfc5970/**url/url.html<https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webapps/raw-file/81f2

Re: A very preliminary draft of a URL spec

2013-05-19 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 4:24 AM, Charles McCathie Nevile wrote: > On Mon, 13 May 2013 17:25:23 +0100, Anne van Kesteren > wrote: >> What's wrong with the http://url.spec.whatwg.org/ URL standard. > > 1. It is apparently not intended to become a stable reference that can be > used in situations wh

Re: A very preliminary draft of a URL spec

2013-05-14 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 4:24 AM, Charles McCathie Nevile wrote: > I am checking that it will actually get implementation - since a spec of > "things we think people should do, but they don't and probably won't" is > just an idea written down. Yeah, I think this shows that you have not actually ch

Re: A very preliminary draft of a URL spec

2013-05-14 Thread Charles McCathie Nevile
On Mon, 13 May 2013 17:25:23 +0100, Anne van Kesteren wrote: On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 8:34 PM, Charles McCathie Nevile wrote: So far I have done nothing at all about an API, and am waiting for some formal confirmation from people who implement stuff that they would like to standardise an A

Re: A very preliminary draft of a URL spec

2013-05-13 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 8:34 PM, Charles McCathie Nevile wrote: > Hi, > > to close ACTION-693 I scribbled some stuff into a very preliminary draft of > a URL spec: > <https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webapps/raw-file/81f24bfc5970/url/url.html> > > In the end I didn't copy A

Re: A very preliminary draft of a URL spec

2013-05-13 Thread Robin Berjon
On 13/05/2013 05:34 , Charles McCathie Nevile wrote: So far I have done nothing at all about an API, and am waiting for some formal confirmation from people who implement stuff that they would like to standardise an API for dealing with URLs. It seems to be a common task, judging from the number

Re: A very preliminary draft of a URL spec

2013-05-13 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 8:34 PM, Charles McCathie Nevile wrote: > So far I have done nothing at all about an API, and am waiting for some > formal confirmation from people who implement stuff that they would like to > standardise an API for dealing with URLs. It seems to be a common task, > judgin

Re: A very preliminary draft of a URL spec

2013-05-13 Thread Charles McCathie Nevile
On Mon, 13 May 2013 04:34:32 +0100, Charles McCathie Nevile wrote: Hi, to close ACTION-693 I scribbled some stuff into a very preliminary draft of a URL spec: I made a couple of updates, including a pointer to the readable incarnation of the latest version: <https://dvcs.w3.org

A very preliminary draft of a URL spec

2013-05-12 Thread Charles McCathie Nevile
Hi, to close ACTION-693 I scribbled some stuff into a very preliminary draft of a URL spec: <https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webapps/raw-file/81f24bfc5970/url/url.html> In the end I didn't copy Anne's spec beyond believeing him about some Unicode points when I was offline. So