(accidentally hit reply instead of reply all, so sending again) On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Phillips, Addison <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Webapps WG, > > (these are personal comments) > > I happened to be referring to the Widget spec this morning and noticed a few > minor items that I feel should be brought to your attention. > > 1. Section 5.3 (Zip Relative Paths). The ABNF defines "language-range". I > think this is not desirable. Language ranges are input to the matching > algorithm (i.e. the user's request). You don't really want paths like > "locale/de-*-1901". You want concrete paths here and "*" has no business in a > path. Ideally you would reference the "Language-Tag" production in BCP 47 > (RFC 5646). However, since it is a large production and you don't probably > want to directly incorporate it, you could incorporate the "obs-language-tag" > production in the same document instead. You should still say that language > tags used in paths "must" be valid language tags according to the more formal > production. >
Valid point. I don't think anyone will complain if we change this. > 2. Section 5.3. The same production corresponds to BCP 47 (RFC 4647) > "extended-language-range", although it only allows the tags to use lowercase > letters. I really feel that mixed case is not that difficult to support and > that it will save many developers from inexplicable silent failures. > This is true... however, most engines implemented the case sensitive requirement (implementers had concerns about Unicode case comparisons)). I think it might be hard to fix this one without breaking a bunch of runtimes and maybe content.... need to think about it. > 3. There is no mention of case sensitivity of filenames anywhere that I can > find. You should define if filenames are case sensitive (or not) and what is > meant by "case sensitive" if it is supported (just ASCII case? Unicode > default case mapping?) > Search for "case-sensitively" or "case-sensitive" instead. The case-sensitive requirement on files comes a fair bit. -- Marcos Caceres Opera Software ASA, http://www.opera.com/ http://datadriven.com.au
