- From: Thomas Broyer <t.broyer@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 15:55:17 +0200
- To: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > Apparently there are some differences between browsers in the handling of > percent escaped characters in fragment identifiers. I made a few tests to > figure out the different behavior: > > http://tc.labs.opera.com/html/navigation/fragids/ > > I was able to test in Opera 9.5, Firefox 3.0, and Internet Explorer 6.0. Raw results: In Chrome and Safari 3.1.2 on Windows (same results, unsurprisingly ;-) ): Test 3 says A (as HTML5) Test 4 says B Test 8 says B In IE7: Test 2 says A Test 3 says A Test 6 says A Test 8 says B In Firefox 2.0.0.16: Same as the "expected results" column. > Results: > > IE does not handle pct-encoded in fragment which is in violation of RFC > 3986. It does nothing special with either the name or id attributes; simple > literal matching. IE7 seems to align with IE6 here, if I analyze the results correctly. I'll let you do the analysis of the WebKit results, as I haven't digged into the internals of the tests. BTW, have you tried with links within the same document? There shouldn't be any difference IMO but just in case... -- Thomas Broyer
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