On Friday, March 23, 2001, 9:15:26 AM, Marck D. Pearlstone wrote:
>
JM>> But then someone said that the way was putting it between brackets
JM>> and preceded by URL: so that the RitLabs page would look like this
JM>> <URL:http://www.ritlabs.com/>. I asked him if he was sure, and
JM>> gave me the reference to check it.
>
> The W3C documentation itself shows all reference URLs in this format.
> Please could you give us the reference here just so that we can all
> get the context right?
I've responded to this issue on a few mailing lists / Usenet in the past -
when users complained that their email / news client wasn't "smart" enough
to figure out how to parse incomplete / mangled / improperly-formed URLs:
For example (accessed from <http://www.rfc-editor.org/>):
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt>
(obsoletes the original, now classic, RFC 1738)
Section / Appendix E
_Recommendations_ [emphasis mine] for Delimiting URI in Context
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