[Bug 9035] New: Interfaces for URL manipulation: concept of "hierarchical"

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=9035

           Summary: Interfaces for URL manipulation: concept of
                    "hierarchical"
           Product: HTML WG
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Windows NT
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: HTML5 spec bugs
        AssignedTo: dave.null@w3.org
        ReportedBy: julian.reschke@gmx.de
         QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org
                CC: ian@hixie.ch, mike@w3.org, public-html@w3.org


It would be good to specify precisely what "hierarchical" means.

In RFC 3986, the distinction does not exist anymore.

For instance, for

  data:,A%20brief%20note%25foo#bar

IE8 returns

  ,A%20brief%20note%25foo

as pathname, which intuitively seems to be the right thing, given the URI
grammar.


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