- From: Erik van der Poel <erikv@google.com>
- Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 19:58:54 -0700
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: public-html-comments@w3.org
Thanks, Ian. I happen to like the choice (and not just because Chrome happens to be implemented that way). It's just simpler if <base> can reuse the implementation used for other URI/IRI references in HTML, such as <a href="...">. Erik On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > On Sat, 17 Apr 2010, Erik van der Poel wrote: >> >> Was this decided with or without the knowledge of the browser >> behavior? > > With. > >> Is there a record of which parts of the HTML 5 spec are based on browser >> test results? > > Pretty much all of it is informed by existing implementations, and, where > possible, the characteristics of existing content. When browsers diverge > from each other a lot (as in this case), the spec usually takes the less > crazy path, if there aren't pressing reason to do otherwise. > > -- > Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL > http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. > Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' >
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