Re: [whatwg] Stripping newlines from URI attributes (fwd)

Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> ...
>> By the way, what does this WG intend to do about characters where the
>> browsers don't all behave the same way? The browsers are quite
>> consistent about TAB/CR/LF, but IE, Safari, Chrome and Opera convert \
>> to / in the host and path parts of the URI, while Firefox doesn't.
> 
> The draft that was part of HTML 5 said to replace \ with /. I have not 
> checked whether Larry changed this.
> ...

So if that mapping is not required for interop in UAs, why require it then?

BR, Julian