Re: URI WG decides a couple of things
Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@www3.cern.ch>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 93 17:45:22 +0200
From: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@www3.cern.ch>
Message-id: <9307151545.AA07937@www3.cern.ch>
To: marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
Subject: Re: URI WG decides a couple of things
Cc: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch, uri@bunyip.com
Reply-To: timbl@nxoc01.cern.ch
Status: RO
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>Begin forwarded message:
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>Date: Wed, 14 Jul 93 19:13:14 -0500
>From: marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
>What about the fact that for instances of <url> in raw HTML or PRE
>text (or text being interpreted as being in one of those), browsers
>that ignore SGML tags they don't understand will just strip <...>
>right out of the text altogether?
>
Instances of <url> are NOT allowed in raw HTML of course!
This is strictly a method for mentioning URLs in plain text.
It meamns that you can use URLs without HTML.
Given that users won't in general see HTML (and as a general rule
anyway) this
is a good thing.
Parsing
plain text is only a guess of course, there is nothing
to stop someone writing <http:junk> to confuse people.
IF <url> is represented in HTML (PRE or otherwise) it will of course
be <url> and there will be no problem.
>Marc
Tim