- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 06:02:25 +0000 (UTC)
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Dan Mosedale wrote: > > The escaping specified in > <http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#custom-handlers> is > slightly different than the escaping done by encodeURIComponent (as > described at > <http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Reference:Global_Functions:encodeURIComponent>). > Specifically, encodeURIComponent is documented as not escaping: > > ! * ' ( ) > > characters, whereas the spec seems to want these characters to be > escaped. Is this intentional? If so, what's the motivation? The spec was changed recently to just require that things that can't be in the <query> component of a URI be escaped, instead of saying everything must be escaped. Is that ok? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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