Re: parsing URI (references) according to RFC 3986

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"?

Best regards, Julian

Received on Monday, 20 June 2011 06:51:36 UTC