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> An editorial comment. I see the document using such terms as "mailto: > URL", "data: URL", "javascript: URL" etc. An example is (Section 2.1.1): > >> The term |data:| URL refers to URLs >> <http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#url> that use the |data:| >> scheme. > Considering the string before "URL" identifies the scheme, I'd > recommend not to include ":" (colon) their, since this character isn't > a part of the scheme name (but rather a delimiter). Having "scheme > URL" or " 'scheme' URL " (I personally prefer the last) is OK. [split out from bug 12986]
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I'll reopen the bug now. Whereas people understand better, this is not correct in terms of RFC 3986. It specifies a ":" character as a delimiter, and everything before it in the URI is a scheme name. So it is incorrect to point to eg. 'http:' scheme because it literally leads to URI like "http:://smth.org/". Moreover, as HTML spec is available in HTML, and you actively use highlighting there, I doubt there will be any problems with understanding. Please reconsider this proposal.
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See <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/178>.