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Re: Just say 'mu' to namespace URIs

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• Subject: Re: Just say 'mu' to namespace URIs
• From: Arjun Ray <aray@n...>
• Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 18:27:53 +0000
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Norman Walsh <ndw@n...> wrote:

| User confusion is the exact center of the problem, I think.

+1.

| I can view the string "http://www.example.com/some/uri" as a name if 
| I want and use it everywhere that I would be inclined to use a name.
| 
| The problem is that it confuses users because (I assert that many)
| users think of strings like that as addresses. They don't think that
| they're getting some resource with a funny name, they think they're
| going to the www.example.com address and getting a document.

Yup.  It's a matter of expectations (and the falsification thereof due to
nuances the appreciation of which are reserved to geeks only), especially
with respect to the use of 'http:' in such "names".  

This is a perma-subthread of a perma-thread.

 http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200012/msg00584.html 
 http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/2000Jan/0241.html

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