Henri Sivonen wrote:
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That's one possibility, but it would be much more useful if the specs
for IRIs/URIs actually suited the original and most common use case--use
in HTML href attributes--without definitional preprocessing gymnastics.
...
I'd say that the specs are just fine; they just do not work well for
something that pretends to be a URI but isn't.
The way "javascript:" is used inside HTML hrefs has *nothing* to do with
resource identification.
The most honest way to go forward would be just to acknowledge this, and
to document it in HTML5.
BR, Julian
