Re: Registering the about: URI scheme

On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:41:02 +0100, Joseph A Holsten  
<joseph@josephholsten.com> wrote:
> On Jan 27, 2009, at 7:38 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:
>> Lachlan Hunt wrote:
>>> Opera: The address bar changes to "opera:config", but still returns
>>>        an error.
>>> Firefox: Says the URL is not valid.
>>
>> If "about" is to be considered to be an URI scheme, these are bugs.
>
> +1 but sadly, until this is published, these are just as informally  
> specified features as everything else. Anyone else got an opinion?

FWIW, at least Opera does not return an error if you include such an  
about: URL within <a href="...">...</a> which seems to indicate that the  
address bar is special cased for one reason or another. Given that the  
address bar is a UI feature, I'm not sure I'd consider it a bug if it does  
not work there. (I have not checked other browsers though.)


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