- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:03:43 -0400
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- CC: Adam Barth <ietf@adambarth.com>, Chris Weber <chris@lookout.net>, public-iri@w3.org
On 6/23/11 3:51 AM, Julian Reschke wrote: >> The handling of URIs like "#foo" (and in particular what's used as the >> base URI for them) has been an interop problem in the past, as I >> recall... Some browsers use the document URI, some browsers use the base >> URI, some do a mix depending on various other considerations... or >> something. For some browsers I haven't been able to figure out what >> they're doing. > > I agree. But this is an HTML-issue (deciding what the base URI is), not > a URI/IRI issue. Yes, it should be solved, but it should be done in the > HTML spec. You seem to misunderstand. Last I checked, the URI specs called for "#foo" and "foo" to be treated differently in terms of resolution with respect to a base URI.... Something about local vs non-local references or the like. HTML does decide what the base URI is, of course. -Boris
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