olivierthereaux
commented
13 years ago What's a URI to whom?
- To the W3C, to the TAG, to the handful of old-skool hypertext geeks out there?
- To someone using the web as a content publishing platform?
- To someone using the web as an interactive application platform
- To someone using the web as a transparent backend for interactive applications
- To someone browsing the web from a computer web browser with an "address bar"
- To someone browsing the web from a computer web browser without an "address bar" ?
Obligatory reference: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3305.txt