It is spelled "URl"
There are many sectarian divides in computer.
- "Little-Endians" and "Big-Endians" wage bitter war against each other over the order of bits.
- Should line in text files end with
\r\n
or just\n
? - And both
vi
andemacs
users fight betwixt themselves while ignoring the superior foe -nano
.
Perhaps the most contentious of these is the battle between URI
and URL
. Should we refer to links on the web as Uniform Resource Identifiers or Locators? Obviously there is a correct answer - and anyone who disagrees is a heretic.
So, I've come up with a compromise guaranteed to annoy satisfy everyone - URl.
That's upper-case U, upper-case R, lower case L.
Perfect!
Andrew says:
... Tabs -vs- spaces... ?
@edent says:
I just use ideographic space U+3000 for everything!
Oliver said on twitter.com:
“Lmpressive”.toLowerCase() 👍
Daniel Appelquist said on twitter.com:
Reported and blocked.
Dan Brickley said on twitter.com:
(RIP IRI)
fwiw a while back I tried out the idea of renaming 'URL' to be 'Universal Resource Linker' or similar, to merge the two concepts...
mo 🏳️🌈🇪🇺 said on twitter.com:
didn't WHATWG basically define them as synonyms anyway, and a bunch of that got carried into the HTML5 spec?
ISTR that W3C and IETF have in effect diverged on the definitions as a result…
Tim Lebo said on twitter.com:
Yes. Yes. Yes!
Tim Finin said on twitter.com:
Brilliant! But we may have to choose our fonts carefully to maintain the peace.
a libi rose said on post.lurk.org:
@Edent i love a beautifully obnoxious answer.
@edent says:
Thank you!
Mattias Wadman said on fosstodon.org:
@Edent found a compromise: URᒫ
Chris David Miles ✰ said on mastodon.social:
@Edent I know someone who pronounces gif as "kiff" for the same reason.