- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:59:22 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Andrew Sidwell <w3c@andrewsidwell.co.uk>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On Sat, 24 May 2008, Andrew Sidwell wrote: > > http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/?%3C!DOCTYPE%20html%3E%0A%3Ca%20href%3D%22%20%20%20http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dhello%20%20world%20%20%20%20%20%22%20class%3D%22%20%20%20raga%20taga%20%20%20%20%22%20new%3D%22%20%20%20raga%20%20haga%20%20%22%3Emeow%3C%2Fa%3E%0A > > <!DOCTYPE html> > <a href=" http://google.com/search?q=hello world " > class=" raga taga " new=" raga haga ">meow</a> > > I can't find anywhere in the spec which defines how to deal with > whitespace in attribute values. Special handling seems to be in > browsers for the "href" and "class" attributes, and more general > handling in others. [...] > > This isn't much of an interoperability issue except in the case of the > href attribute. When following the href attribute, all browsers remove > at least any leading or trailing whitespace and URL-encode the rest, > even if the DOM has some leading/trailing whitespace. Behaviour in this > case should be defined. This should not be pretty well-defined. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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