Re: [whatwg] HTML5 and URI Templates

2007-12-16 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
On Dec 16, 2007, at 7:36 AM, Julian Reschke wrote: Geoffrey Sneddon wrote: change their meaning, breaking the sites, specs be damned. If RFC 3986 defined what to do with non-conformant URIs, we wouldn't have this issue. Oh well. Are you really believing this? RFC2396 and RFC3986 define

Re: [whatwg] HTML5 and URI Templates

2007-12-16 Thread James M Snell
Right. We avoid the issue by using a different attribute for the template. - James Julian Reschke wrote: > [snip] > That being said -- James suggested "template" instead of "action" anyway. > > BR, Julian > >

Re: [whatwg] HTML5 and URI Templates

2007-12-16 Thread Julian Reschke
Geoffrey Sneddon wrote: On Dec 16, 2007, at 05:28, James M Snell wrote: The gist of the idea (which I believe may have been brought up before but I'm not certain) is to allow the use of a URI Template in place of the form element action attribute, and to use form elements to provide the replacem

Re: [whatwg] HTML5 and URI Templates

2007-12-16 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Dec 16, 2007, at 14:21, Philip Taylor wrote: But the original example had which would avoid that conflict. Oops. I missed that. Would the processing model be that the template attribute overrides the action attribute in template-aware UAs leaving it to the page author to provide a se

Re: [whatwg] HTML5 and URI Templates

2007-12-16 Thread Geoffrey Sneddon
On 16 Dec 2007, at 14:12, Julian Reschke wrote: Henri Sivonen wrote: On Dec 16, 2007, at 05:28, James M Snell wrote: The gist of the idea (which I believe may have been brought up before but I'm not certain) is to allow the use of a URI Template in place of the form element action attribut

Re: [whatwg] HTML5 and URI Templates

2007-12-16 Thread Julian Reschke
Henri Sivonen wrote: On Dec 16, 2007, at 05:28, James M Snell wrote: The gist of the idea (which I believe may have been brought up before but I'm not certain) is to allow the use of a URI Template in place of the form element action attribute, and to use form elements to provide the replacemen

Re: [whatwg] HTML5 and URI Templates

2007-12-16 Thread Philip Taylor
On 16/12/2007, Henri Sivonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 16, 2007, at 05:28, James M Snell wrote: > > > http://example.org{-prefix|/|foo}?bar={bar}" > > method="POST"> > > Foo: > > Bar: > > > > What's the backward-compatibility story of this feature? (Both > behavior of URI templa

Re: [whatwg] HTML5 and URI Templates

2007-12-16 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Dec 16, 2007, at 05:28, James M Snell wrote: The gist of the idea (which I believe may have been brought up before but I'm not certain) is to allow the use of a URI Template in place of the form element action attribute, and to use form elements to provide the replacement values, e.g. http:/

Re: [whatwg] The truth about Nokias claims

2007-12-16 Thread Joseph Daniel Zukiger
> > (4) Allow the requirement of (1) to be waived, or > > commuted to the next best thing available under > RAND > > terms in the event that there are no > implementations > > not known to be encumbered. > > The codec required must be specified explicitly by > name, otherwise the > online world w