- From: Bill Mason <whatwg@accessibleinter.net>
- Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 07:51:42 -0700
Gervase Markham wrote: >> Looking through the spec again, there is nothing about backslashes in >> URI's path being treated as a forward slash, behaviour needed for >> compatibility for quite a few websites. > > I would be rather surprised if that were true, given that Firefox > doesn't do it and I've never come across a website which broke for that > reason. But maybe I live a sheltered life. It's not that unheard of, though I wouldn't say it's rampant. Just a quick search on bugzilla.mozilla.org [1] produces some samples. Admittedly most of these bugs are old. However the newest one is from January 2007, so the problem still crops up. [1] http://tinyurl.com/2evdox -- Bill Mason Accessible Internet whatwg at accessibleinter.net http://accessibleinter.net/
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