- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 13:08:04 +0100
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- CC: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
On 24.01.2011 12:56, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 15:51:43 +0100, Julian Reschke > <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote: >> It's what the spec says, and why I raised the bug. > > So if Ian changed the note -- as he indicates this actually has nothing > to do with HTTP so that would probably be the right thing to do here -- > it would be okay with you? It would help; but I'd still object to mandate a behavior for no good reason when IE doesn't do it. >>> because double and single quotes can be used all over the Web Platform >>> interchangeably. Often though more lenient syntax is more compatible and >>> authors do not always test in IE. There are places where IE has >>> negligible market share. >> >> We can't change the HTTP syntax without breaking existing clients, >> such as IE but likely many others. > > Currently the syntax breaks many clients as well. Probably including IE. Which syntax? >> Furthermore, if people not testing in IE is a problem, then the right >> solution is to converge on the (correct) behavior of IE. > > That is not how many of our design choices have been made to date. That may be a problem in itself. Best regards, Julian
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