From: Cosmin T. <co...@cs...> - 2008-08-26 03:31:55
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On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Willem van Schaik wrote: > On a different note and to make things worse, I would absolutely have > preferred 'URL' over 'URI'. Yes I understand the purist differences. But go > to your local university computer science department and ask 10 of today's > students if they know what URI stands for. I would bet that less than a > quarter would even have heard of it. After that go to your local > high-school..... :-) Yes, we old-schoolers (BTW, anybody on this alias > younger than 30 years old, please stand up :-) can still debate about the > nuances of URI and URL, but in my book that's all "old theoretical crap". I personally use URI, not URL, but I wouldn't mind switching to the latter. However, this might become irrelevant: so far, "Source URI" seems to win over "URI", so... Best regards, Cosmin |