- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:28:58 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Kartikaya Gupta wrote:
>
> It seems that major browsers all support URL decomposition on
> HTMLAnchorElement, but this doesn't seem to be stated anywhere in the
> HTML5 spec. The jQuery/tabs library seems to depend on this
> (specifically, on the "hash" property) being available. Could the
> HTMLAnchorElement interface be updated to reflect this?
Done.
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Jo?o Eiras wrote:
>
> Browsers also support partially setting each of the url fields
> separately, although error handling between all of them is very
> inconsistent. Note: if you specify this behavior, then you need to
> specify what happens for http:, https:, data:, mailto: and unknown:
Done.
Browsers differ in how this is handled; the spec doesn't quite match any
of them (it takes the most sane aspects of each browser I tested).
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
>
> If you specify the setters then you also need to specify how this
> affects the value of the "href" attribute in the DOM. For example, in
> Gecko if you have an <a href="foo#bar"> which has base URI
> "http://example.com/" and you set anchor.hash on that anchor to "baz",
> then the attribute value is changed to "http://example.com/foo#baz". I
> can't speak to what happens in other browsers.
Done.
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Kartikaya Gupta wrote:
>
> var a = document.createElement('a');
> a.setAttribute('href', 'http://example.org:123/foo?bar#baz');
> a.hostname = null;
> alert(a.hostname); // displays "foo"
> alert(a.href); // displays "http://foo/?bar#baz"
The spec says "null" and "http://null:123/foo?bar#baz".
If WebIDL changes to say that 'null' becomes "", then the spec says
"example.org" and "http://example.org:123/foo?bar#baz" (setting 'host' or
'hostname' to the empty string is ignored).
> a.setAttribute('href', 'scheme://host/path');
> a.host = null;
> alert(a.host); // displays ""
> alert(a.pathname); // displays ""
> alert(a.href); // displays "scheme:////host/path"
If 'null' becomes "null": "null", "/path", and "scheme://null/path".
If 'null' becomes "": "host", "/path", and "scheme://host/path" (setting
'host' or 'hostname' to the empty string is ignored).
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Biju wrote:
>
> var a = document.createElement('a');
Assuming a base URL of "http://example.com/path/":
> a.setAttribute('href', 'http:/Example.org:123/foo?bar#baz'); //Case 1
> alert(a.href);
Per spec: "http://example.com/Example.org:123/foo?bar#baz"
> a.setAttribute('href', 'http:example.org:123/foo?bar#baz'); //Case 2
> alert(a.href);
Per spec: "http://example.com/path/Example.org:123/foo?bar#baz"
> a.setAttribute('href', 'http:///example.org:123/foo?bar#baz'); //Case 3
> alert(a.href);
Per spec: "" (the URL can't be parsed).
> a.setAttribute('href', 'http://///example.org:123/foo?bar#baz'); //Case 4
> alert(a.href);
Per spec: "" (the URL can't be parsed).
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