Re: requesting feedback regarding HTML5 and RFC 3987

On 2011-06-19 16:15, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
> On 6/19/11 10:14 AM, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
>> On 6/18/11 8:06 PM, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
>>> A quick one is checking whether there is
>>> a special rule for something resembling the "javascript" scheme for the
>>> "#" character.
>>
>> For what it's worth, Gecko's behavior on this particular issue may be
>> changing as of Firefox 6 to treat '#' in a javascript: URI as the start
>> of a fragment identifier, assuming we don't find compat issues with it.
>
> Though to be clear, the script text that is executed will continue to
> include everything after the 'javascript:', including the fragment
> identifier. So the difference may not be detectable.

Interesting.

Does this mean it will be run through a "more conforming" parser, but 
then the value will be reconstructed including the fragment identifier?

(I ask because that's exactly what I think we need to do *if* we need to 
have scheme-specific workarounds)

Best regards, Julian

Received on Sunday, 19 June 2011 14:36:45 UTC