- From: Joseph A Holsten <joseph@josephholsten.com>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 08:26:10 -0600
- To: James Graham <jgraham@opera.com>
- Cc: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 James Graham wrote: > The text > > "If the application may use a document of MIME type 'text/html' and > character encoding 'UTF-8', about:blank SHOULD be represented with > an empty document. Other representations are not defined." > > is confusing. Specifically the use of "may" in the first sentence > seems wrong (in the English grammar sense). It seems like the > actual requirement is that HTML 5 UAs must represent about:blank as > an empty (or close-to-empty) document (this seems like it is a must > since it is required for web-compat.). Note that there seem to be a > bunch of magic things about scripting about:blank documents (I'm > not sure of the details); I don't know if the plan is to spec these > here or defer to HTML 5 (the latter seems more sensible to me). If > it is indeed the latter, I guess a reference to HTML 5 is needed here. > I'm satisfied with either. I'm not entirely clear on the HTML 5 magic regarding about:blank. I don't this should discuss application layer information like the DOM, but presentation level info like the document contents seems fine. And, uh, should I say HTML5? What about HTML6, &c? http://josephholsten.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAkl/GYIACgkQrPgSa0qMrmH6CQCfb/5I2xvYJmvdIVOsfmqF7ygr oxcAnRtapgBOUSV6nSudWj9v4zZS6+ad =PSNm -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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