Larry Masinter

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I've suggested a BOF session at IETF 111, which will be held online, to consider what changes to IETF specs would, in conjunction with WHATWG specs, would resolve this issue....

@alwinb Nothing in IETF will happen unless you show up with friends willing to actually do the work.

I responded on the "dispatch" list: what's the minimum amount of work that will improve the lack of clarity of what spec is what? (MNot's suggestion). Second, what is the...

1) include (an update of) https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ruby-url-problem-01s Yes, there are other specs Yes, there are other non-HTML non-web applications that only do 3986 even if it needs a whatwgURL -> ietfURI...

i'd lean toward (1) under the theory that there are likely registered schemes where percent-decoding and white-space stripping are inappropriate.

There's a related problem I wanted to track down: ADD-EXEC (from background menu) prompts with "Exec" instead of a reasonable prompt like "Drag region for Exec window". (When I do...

I've been making headway, and have found and fixed a couple of problems. These are interrelated in an odd sort of way. One problem is in the "definition" of a...

I was getting memory smash symptoms (bad ARRAYBLOCK on Freelist) when running interpreted, which makes me want to go through and look for more instances of the 24->28 bit address-size...

byte order mark at beginning of the file should be skipped. In fact, it's probly the most reliable way of guessing whether a file should be treated as XCCS vs...

UTR#17: Unicode Character Encoding Model is another reference. We went through this in HTTP and practice is pretty well-established by now. When you open a file and peek at the...