Re: [Uri-review] [uri-review] Review Request for Icon URI Scheme

Thanks to all for the comments. I did see the warning about RFC 1738 being
obsoleted by RFC 3986 while using the xml2rfc tool but that did not seem
correct to me --as Ira pointed out.

Regarding Toby's thoughts on using HTTP, I'm with Joseph on this one. For
this to be standardized, it really seems that an independent URI is needed.
Developers already use the moz-icon scheme in Mozilla; a generic icon scheme
is a simple and trustworthy way to bring this desired functionality to all
browsers and have developers be comfortable using it.

On 14 April 2010 19:44, Ira McDonald <blueroofmusic@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> For the 'file:' URI scheme, RFC 1738 *is* the correct normative reference.
>
> Note that RFC 1738 is NOT obsoleted but is only updated by RFC 3986
> - its current status is Proposed Standard, according to the RFC Index at:
>
>  http://www.ietf.org/download/rfc-index.txt
>
> The ABNF for the 'file:' URI scheme is only specified in RFC 1738 (and a
> 5-year-old expired ID by Paul Hoffman).
>
> The 'file:' URI scheme is ubiquitously supported (*not* in an interoperable
> fashion) by web browsers and operating systems.  The lack of a modern
> reference RFC is a sore point for many standards developers.
>
> Cheers,
> - Ira
>
>
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> On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
> wrote:
> > On 05.04.2010 17:12, Pierre-Antoine LaFayette wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi everyone!
> >>
> >> I've put together a draft document for an icon URI scheme, used for
> >> displaying platform specific icons in web pages, that I would like to
> >> get some feedback on.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> http://draft-icon-uri-scheme.googlecode.com/hg/draft-lafayette-icon-uri-scheme-00.html
> .
> >>
> >> Discussion of this scheme has been going on in the
> public-webapps@w3.org
> >> <mailto:public-webapps@w3.org> mailing list:
> >> http://www.mail-archive.com/public-webapps@w3.org/msg07377.html
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >> ...
> >
> > Nit: you really shouldn't have a normative reference to an obsoleted spec
> > (RFC 1738).
> >
> > Best regards, Julian
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-- 
Pierre.