Re: IRI support in XHR, was: XHR LC comments

Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:35:57 +0200, Julian Reschke 
> <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
>> Julian Reschke wrote:
>>> That being said, I just tested IRIs with IE/FF/Opera/Safari, and they 
>>> work everywhere except in IE (both 7 and 8beta) (*). Thus, we don't 
>>> have any kind of interoperability here.
> 
> 3/4 doing the same sounds like interoperability is pretty good. There 
> are features discovered where there's 6/4 having different behavior. 
> (Different versions of the same engine.)

Of course 3/4 sounds better than "less than half of the browsers in use" 
:-).

Do you really believe anybody is going to use IRIs in XHR if there's no 
way to make it work in IE?

>> ...so this should probably be covered by the test suite...
> 
> Of course, everything should.

I was mentioning it because MS apparently *does* run the test suite, so 
adding a test would help ensure the problem appears on their radar.

BR, Julian

Received on Wednesday, 18 June 2008 09:51:56 UTC