Re: websockets in the IETF, was: [whatwg] New URL Standard from Anne van Kesteren on 2012-09-24 (public-whatwg-archive@w3.org from September 2012)

Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> Tue, 23 October 2012 21:36 UTC

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+1

On 10/23/12 2:32 PM, James M Snell wrote:
> It should be quite clear to everyone that the horse is quite dead at
> this point. Any further beating is entirely unnecessary. So let's wrap
> it up with this: the whatwg's spec language around urls has the
> potential to cause confusion among implementers, so please consider
> reworking that language to avoid such confusion. Period, end of story.