- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 12:14:49 -0400
- To: public-iri@w3.org
On 4/26/11 12:03 PM, Julian Reschke wrote:
> <base href="data://foo/bar?baz#qux">
> <a href="taco.html">hello</a>
> <script>
> alert(document.getElementsByTagName('a')[0].href)
> </script>
>
> The results are:
>
> A: Firefox 4, IE 9: ignore the <base> element, and resolve "taco.html"
> against where the document was served from
...
> - This is an edge case; unless I'm missing something, using "data:" as a
> base URI is meaningless. This is what FF and IE seem to think.
That's not what Gecko thinks.
What Gecko thinks is that this is a URI it can't parse at all as a URI,
so it ignores the <base>. The reason it can't parse it is that the
string after "data:" doesn't match the production we expect for a data:
URI (no comma, for example).
You would get the same effect in Gecko with:
<base href="http://spaces here/">
<a href="taco.html">hello</a>
<script>
alert(document.getElementsByTagName('a')[0].href)
</script>
(but not if you removed the ' ' in the http URI, note).
> - There's no interop here at all. So it appears we could recommend
> something that is actually based by the specs.
Assuming this test is representative. Is it?
-Boris
Received on Tuesday, 26 April 2011 16:15:18 UTC