I've decided to propose a URI class to deal with the handling of URIs
that is so prevalent in Ajax apps and also in Flash and to a lesser
extent, Adobe Reader.
I propose this idea here because noticed that there are other places
besides the web that can use it (Flash, Reader). A URI class could
ES embeddings exist where URIs make no sense, so it's not a good
candidate for the core standard. But we expect the burgeoning Ajax
ecosystem to keep on burgeoning (http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?
gwp=13s=burgeon), and make good use of shared library hosting
arrangements such as those