Re: Non-hierarchical base URLs (was Re: draft-abarth-url-01 uploaded) from Boris Zbarsky on 2011-04-26 (public-iri@w3.org from April 2011)

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 12:53:48 -0400
To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
CC: public-iri@w3.org
Message-ID: <4DB6F89C.4060907@mit.edu>

On 4/26/11 12:42 PM, Julian Reschke wrote:
> If I use
>
> data:text/plain,foo
>
> it should be able to parse it, however I then get
>
> taco.html
>
> Is this intentional?

Yes.  This is actually a general behavior Gecko has for URI-valued DOM 
properties.  The pseudocode is something like:

   attrValue = getAttribute(attrName);
   resolvedURIObject = createURIObject(attrValue, baseURIObject);
   if (!resolvedURIObject) {
     return attrValue;
   }
   return resolvedURIObject.toString();

I believe we do that "because we always have" (or in other words because 
at some point it was probably needed for web compat; not sure whether it 
is now).

-Boris

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