Re: parsing URI (references) according to RFC 3986

On 2011-06-23 00:00, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
> On 6/20/11 3:37 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:
>> So, what *is* the set of interop problems here?
>
> The handling of URIs like "#foo" (and in particular what's used as the
> base URI for them) has been an interop problem in the past, as I
> recall... Some browsers use the document URI, some browsers use the base
> URI, some do a mix depending on various other considerations... or
> something. For some browsers I haven't been able to figure out what
> they're doing.

I agree. But this is an HTML-issue (deciding what the base URI is), not 
a URI/IRI issue. Yes, it should be solved, but it should be done in the 
HTML spec.

> ...

Best regards, Julian

Received on Thursday, 23 June 2011 07:52:16 UTC