- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:20:27 +0200
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- CC: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Henri Sivonen wrote: > On Sep 27, 2009, at 14:18, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > >> It seems like it would be more painstakingly accurate to say "A URL is >> a string used to retrieve a resource" > > I think the point of the ISSUE is that the theoretically pure view is > that you can never retrieve a resource but only its representation. See > also the subject line of > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2009Jun/0101.html Henri, when you say "theoretically pure view" it almost sounds as a bad thing. Technical purity is a *good* thing, unless it is in conflict with other design goals. I don't think it is in this case. BR, Julian
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