Re: minutes of 2010-09-08 teleconference

2010/9/9 Raphaël Troncy <raphael.troncy@eurecom.fr>

> Dear all,
>
> I'm going back to what has been scribed during the telecon, and this is a
> question to Ian (Hickson)) via Silvia :-)
>
>  Yves: in that case we are not controlling what is presented to the user
>> silvia: the WHATWG doesn't want to specify the presentation of media
>> fragment URIs in the HTML spec, but wants it to be in our spec
>> … that's where it belongs in their mind
>>
>
> Can Ian provide a pointer to a paragraph in any of the HTML spec (including
> the HTML5 current draft) where it is written that a browser MUST jump to the
> section identified by a (resolvable) frag id for an HTML document? This is
> the standard behavior in all browsers, right? However, I cannot find where
> it has ever been written ... Why would this be different for media
> resources?
>

It's here:
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/history.html#scroll-to-fragid
It had to be included because the specification of what to do with fragment
identifiers in URLs to text/html resources should have been in
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2854.txt, but isn't.

Cheers,
Silvia.

Received on Thursday, 9 September 2010 13:28:17 UTC