* Tim Bray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-03-17 16:27-0800] > > EDITORIAL: > > There are a couple of places where we use "uri" in the markup, > specifically the "atom:uri" element (3.2.2) and the "uri" attribute of > "atom:generator" (4.2.5). > > In both cases they're not actually URIs, they're IRIs, so the name is > WRONG, except for nobody knows what an IRI is so renaming them "iri" > would be confusing, and anyhow everyone thinks of URLs not *RIs, but > naming them "url" would be wrong too, so why don't we actually change > them to say what they're there for not what their syntax is and use > "web" in both cases? -Tim
+1 Dan ps. 'email' in the Person construct could also be handled by 'web' (or 'url/uri/iri') using the mailto: scheme, if only multiple of these were allowed per person-like-thing.
