13863 2011-08-22 15:52:56 +0000 Why is itemid a valid URL potentially surrounded by spaces? 2011-08-25 19:11:43 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG HTML Microdata (editor: Ian Hickson) unspecified Other other RESOLVED INVALID http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#attr-itemid P3 normal --- 1 contributor ian ian mike philipj public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 55583 0 contributor 2011-08-22 15:52:56 +0000 Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/microdata.html Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#attr-itemid Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#attr-itemid Comment: Why is itemid a valid URL potentially surrounded by spaces? Posted from: 81.234.240.242 User agent: Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux x86_64; U; Edition Next; en) Presto/2.9.186 Version/12.00 55584 1 philipj 2011-08-22 15:56:13 +0000 Something that caught my attention while reading http://www.jenitennison.com/blog/node/164 - "The itemid can’t just be empty: the . is the shortest URI you can use to reference the page itself." I thought that itemid="" would mean the same thing, but it appears that itemId is resolved differently from most other URL attributes because it is a "valid URL potentially surrounded by spaces". Is there a reason why itemid is not just a "valid URL" like most other URL properties? 55615 2 ian 2011-08-22 21:06:33 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Rejected Change Description: no spec change Rationale: It isn't resolved any differently from others as far as I can tell. 55686 3 philipj 2011-08-23 11:28:27 +0000 That could be an Opera bug, but the main question is: Is there a reason why itemid is not just a "valid URL" like most other URL properties? "valid URL potentially surrounded by spaces" seems to be something odd needed for legacy compat, not something to deliberately introduce. If it *is* deliberate, why is itemtype not the same? 55809 4 philipj 2011-08-25 19:11:43 +0000 This was changed in http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=4991&to=4992 to resolve http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=9354 Given that, things seem to make a bit more sense. itemtype is relfected as a string, while itemid is reflected as a URL and resolved. Closing as invalid again.