[Uri-review] HTML5 reference, Re: about: scheme; Simplified Encoding Considerations

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Tue, 22 September 2009 07:34 UTC

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Subject: [Uri-review] HTML5 reference, Re: about: scheme; Simplified Encoding Considerations
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Larry Masinter wrote:
> ...
> "The HTML representation of the URI "about:blank" MUST use the origin
>    and the effective script origin as defined by HTML5 Section 5.4
>    Origin [W3C.WD-html5]"
> 
> but the HTML representation of the URI "about:blank"
> is not defined as something that has an origin or
> an effective script origin in most deployed software,
> it's just an empty resource. So this MUST doesn't
> make sense in the context given.
> This advice could be conditioned on the HTML interpreter
> actually being compliant with html5, but then this
> doesn't really belong in the registration of about:,
> whose use is already widely deployed.
> ...

...which reminds me that the normative reference on HTML5 is a problem 
in itself. It would be really great if it could be avoided.

BR, Julian