From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 10:02:09 +0100 Organization: Probably a good idea Message-ID: References: <20141205123549.GA29331@thyrsus.com> <87ppbqb6s1.fsf@gnu.org> <87388mme16.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <87a92u86wv.fsf@gnu.org> <87d27oliue.fsf@gnu.org> <87r3w2fgux.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418809754 27529 80.91.229.3 (17 Dec 2014 09:49:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 09:49:14 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 17 10:49:08 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Y1BDf-00087K-7D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2014 10:48:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48569 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y1BBt-0001t9-R5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2014 04:46:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42736) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y1BAu-0000zf-Ua for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2014 04:45:52 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y1BAp-0005xM-HN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2014 04:45:44 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:46958) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y1BAo-0005xI-Rz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2014 04:45:39 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Y1BAF-0003vN-C3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2014 10:45:03 +0100 Original-Received: from steria10.steria.no ([195.204.41.10]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2014 10:45:03 +0100 Original-Received: from sb by steria10.steria.no with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2014 10:45:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: steria10.steria.no Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/24.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:JPEh2pacxuFUs/q4vCcvFwDpLBQ= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:180218 Archived-At: >>>>> Richard Stallman : >> I don't. Yes, I want it to be "as short as possible", but I also >> want it to work when passed to any random web-browser. >> So it pretty much has to look like "http:///". > Whatever it looks like, it has to lead to your locally installed copy > of the manual in question. FWIW, a relative local path, eg. "../chap1.html", is also a legal URI reference: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#appendix-A All existing web browsers will respect this.