Re: A bug's life - bugs 3410 and the missing recurse/no recurse UI

Hi Cecil,

On Jul 19, 2007, at 21:41 , Cecil Ward wrote:
> only supposed to be parsing the CSS text, not _executing_ it, in  
> some sense, surely? The validator must not issue a warning, as no- 
> one told it to actually attempt to dereference any url. (Although  
> it might want to invoke a URL-parser component as an additional  
> benefit to the user?)

The CSS validator is always looking for @import and <link>, etc, and  
parses the linked stylesheets. The original bug report is correct,  
that relative URIs should not be dereferenced when using file upload  
or direct input.

-- 
olivier

Received on Wednesday, 1 August 2007 03:57:59 UTC