On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 12:20:38PM +0900, YangWoo Ko wrote: > On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 06:11:43PM -0600, Dave Crocker wrote: > > At 11:50 PM 3/21/2002 +0000, D. J. Bernstein wrote: > > >ohn Stracke writes: > > >> For that matter, a well-designed application will not even make it > > >> possible to enter anything but ASCII in an input field (whatever) for a > > >> domain name. > > > > > >That's incredibly bad design. > > > > > > A UI that actually enforces the syntactic rules of the underlying service? > > > > Yes, indeed, that is truly a terrible idea. > > > > It would be much better to let users enter strings that are not valid so > > that some time in the future -- they can never be sure when -- the user's > > string will be found to be invalid and cause an error return to the user -- > > again, sometime later. > > > > Absolutely a superior outcome! > > in that sense, current design of ms ie is very bad. > it just sends non ldh input to their seach engine !
i withdraw above wrong statement. yves corrected me that "if the address looks like a domain name, ie first does a dns lookup of the domain name after encoding it in UTF-8" thanks to yves. i am still worndering what "looks like a domain name" means. -- /*------------------------------------------------ YangWoo Ko : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------*/
