- From: Nicholas Zakas <nzakas@yahoo-inc.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:11:57 -0800
Here's what I would propose: 1. Empty string attributes for HTML elements specifying resources to automatically download are considered invalid and don't cause a request to be sent. Examples: <img>, <link>, <script>, <iframe>, etc. This would not apply to <a href=""> because it is a user-initiated request. 2. This also applies to manipulation of HTML elements through the DOM, so (new Image()).src="" would not result in a request being sent. 3. This does not apply to JavaScript APIs that are unrelated to HTML elements, such as Web Workers, XMLHttpRequest, etc. -Nicholas ______________________________________________ Commander Lock: "Damnit Morpheus, not everyone believes what you believe!" Morpheus: "My beliefs do not require them to." -----Original Message----- From: Jonas Sicking [mailto:jonas@sicking.cc] Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 11:47 AM To: Nicholas Zakas Cc: Maciej Stachowiak; whatwg at lists.whatwg.org; Aryeh Gregor; Simon Pieters Subject: Re: [whatwg] Inconsistent behavior for empty-string URLs On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Nicholas Zakas <nzakas at yahoo-inc.com> wrote: > Is it necessary to apply this within XSLT and CSS as well? Or is it > possible to have this be an HTML-only feature? I'd be happy with the > latter. Nothing is required. But we do need a concrete proposal that everyone agrees on. / Jonas
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