- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:38:09 +0100
- To: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- CC: Joseph A Holsten <joseph@josephholsten.com>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Lachlan Hunt wrote: > ... > "If the application may use a document of MIME type 'text/html' and > character encoding 'UTF-8', about:blank SHOULD be represented with > an empty document." > > I suggest you use the phrasing from my draft and add a reference to HTML5. That will make it hard to publish the spec before HTML5, unless the reference is informative (is it?). > ... > Julian Reschke wrote: >> - "abouturi = "about:" segment" - restricting to segment sounds good, >> but does this reflect reality? > > Looking at the syntax from RFC 3986: > > segment = *pchar > pchar = unreserved / pct-encoded / sub-delims / ":" / "@" > unreserved = ALPHA / DIGIT / "-" / "." / "_" / "~" > pct-encoded = "%" HEXDIG HEXDIG > sub-delims = "!" / "$" / "&" / "'" / "(" / ")" > / "*" / "+" / "," / ";" / "=" > > That doesn't look right. Mozilla uses a query string for some [3], > which isn't permitted by that syntax. > > I'm not sure about supporting percent encoding. Testing with the URI > about:confi%67, these are the results: > > Opera: The address bar changes to "opera:config", but still returns > an error. > > Firefox: Says the URL is not valid. If "about" is to be considered to be an URI scheme, these are bugs. > ... BR, Julian
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