Re: Non-http: methods in CSS URL() from Robin Berjon on 2005-03-01 (www-style@w3.org from March 2005)

From: Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@expway.fr>
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 13:43:41 -0500
To: Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
Cc: www-style@w3.org
Message-ID: <4224B7DD.6050304@expway.fr>

Philip TAYLOR wrote:
> What would list members expect to be the
> result of the following code fragment ?
> 
>     <SPAN STYLE="background-image: url(mailto:p.taylor@rhul.ac.uk)">
>         &nbsp;
>     </SPAN>

I would expect user agents to apply common sense judiciously and not 
attempt to traverse links for schemes that do not permit the retrieval 
of resources.

-- 
Robin Berjon
   Research Scientist
   Expway, http://expway.com/

Received on Tuesday, 1 March 2005 18:44:12 UTC