- 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
Received on Tuesday, 27 January 2009 13:39:01 UTC