- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 00:26:00 -0400
- To: Adam Barth <ietf@adambarth.com>
- CC: public-iri@w3.org
On 6/20/11 12:03 AM, Adam Barth wrote: > Would you be interested in treating \ and / equivalently in more > schemes in order to converge behavior with IE, Chrome, and Safari? I'm not the one making that call; in fact I'm trying to get out of the business of dealing with our networking code... So I can only comment on what we do right now and maybe on why we do it. Historically we have been unwilling to do the above (obviously, since we haven't done it); I can't recall how much was a matter of doing what the spec says as much as possible and how much was specific use cases that the behavior precludes (e.g. using unescaped \ in filenames when the file has that name on the (non-Windows) server). Note that the Chrome and Safari behavior is limited to some particular URI schemes or classes of URI schemes too. Testcase: data:text/html,<b>bold<\b>or not which shows the bold text "bold<\b>or not". I don't have IE9 on hand right this second to check its behavior. -Boris
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