Re: parsing URI (references) according to RFC 3986

On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 11:44 PM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
> On 2011-06-20 06:44, Adam Barth wrote:
>>
>> ...
>> Of course, folks who want to name such files will want to use the
>> escaped form of \ in order for their site to work in browsers other
>> than Firefox.
>> ...
>
> That is the kind of thing we could document as guidance for content
> producers.
>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Correct.  It's limited to "hierarchical" schemes, such as http, ftp,
>> etc (at least in Chrome).
>
> How do you determine whether as scheme is "hierarchical"?

There's a list.

Adam

Received on Monday, 20 June 2011 06:47:17 UTC