Re: aftermath on Bug 8953 – URL decomp. IDL attributes when parsing fails

On 18.02.2010 14:25, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:21:12 +0100, Julian Reschke
> <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
>> (*) URLs in HTML5 are not necessarily valid. I didn't invent that
>> terminology.
>
> Yes, URL is basically the input string. It doesn't follow that something
> that looks like an absolute URL is one.

It might not follow, but it's totally confusing that it isn't.

Anyway, can we get back to the discussion *why* there is this 
restriction to the syntax (considering it's not implemented, and all 
kinds of other garbage are allowed)?

Best regards, Julian

Received on Thursday, 18 February 2010 13:34:29 UTC