- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 17:15:40 +0100
- To: Charles Reitzel <creitzel@rcn.com>
- Cc: <html-tidy@w3.org>
* Charles Reitzel wrote: >Unfortunately, this is a case of "damned if you do, damned if you >don't". Indeed, so authors should avoid using spaces or non-ASCII characters in URIs, no matter what scheme. >FWIW, I couldn't find Javascript links <a href="javascript: ...">foo</a> >described anywhere in the HTML spec. The scheme is not registered and due to usability and accessability issues, no one should use it, especially not the HTML recommendation. >So we may be in a gray area of >compliance with the _Recommendation_. No, there is a normative reference to RFC 2396 which forbids spaces in URI references, and there is http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/appendix/notes#h-B.2.1 http://www.w3.org/International/O-URL-and-ident.h Tidy does what is written in the specification, such behaivour is not a bug and won't be changed.
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