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

Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:18:42 +0200, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> I think it is required.

I thought Firefox doesn't do it?

BR, Julian