Re: URIs in HTML5 and issues arising from Julian Reschke on 2008-06-29 (public-html@w3.org from June 2008)

From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:11:28 +0200
To: Philip Taylor <pjt47@cam.ac.uk>
CC: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Message-ID: <48677BF0.8080507@gmx.de>

Philip Taylor wrote:
> 
> Ian Hickson wrote:
>>> According to 
>>> <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2008Jun/0358.html>, 
>>> Safari 3 uses question marks.
>>
>> According to:
>>
>>    http://hixie.ch/tests/adhoc/uri/encoding/017.html
>>
>> Safari trunk uses &-escaping.
> 
> That says "Query component: raw question mark" in Safari 3.1.2.
> It says "Query component: %-escaped ASCII &#9786;" in nightly WebKit 
> r34603.
> Looks like it changed in https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15119

Interesting.

I'm not sure why the Webkit guys think this is any better then what FF 
does... Which, quoting 
<https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15119#c1>: "amusingly gives the 
"correct" answer for Google".

BR, Julian

Received on Sunday, 29 June 2008 12:12:12 UTC