[Bug 23946] Lift the ban on query parts in “blob:” URIs

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=23946

--- Comment #6 from Arun <arun@mozilla.com> ---
(In reply to Manuel Strehl from comment #3)
> The problem with use cases is often, that they might to rise only after
> implementation was completed... One possible future use however that I just
> remembered: The SVG WG thought about parametrized SVG in 2010, where the
> query part determines part of the layout of an SVG image. Something along
> 
>     image.svg?mycolor=red
> 
>     <rect fill="{$mycolor}"/>
> 
> or similar. I haven't heard about writing that to a spec since, but this or
> other uses of static content listening or depending on the query may come to
> be in the future. (The probability rises the more we slid into a server-less
> time.) Then blob URLs are all of a sudden the IE6 of URI schemes, so to say.


The use case above is still hypothetical at best.  If a compelling use case
comes up for which there's active demand, we might be able to revisit this. 
Bear in mind, however, that the majority use case for blob: URLs (not counting
mediastream: and friends) is for files which user agents have a temporary
(readonly) reference to.

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