- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 04:50:48 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- cc: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, Jonas Sicking wrote: > > Julian, your change proposal claims that this is not needed for > interoperability. Do you have any data showing this other than the > fact that webkit-based browsers and opera does not implement this? That's actually not a fact. The browsers are pretty consistent in their handling of backslashes -- none of them do what Julian's CP proposes, they all just treat them the same as any other punctuation: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10806#c10 -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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