- From: Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:29:05 +1200
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24 at gmail.com> wrote: > RFC 3986, which is referenced in the Web addresses specification, states > "In some cases, extra whitespace (spaces, line-breaks, tabs, etc.) may have > to be added to break a long URI across lines. The whitespace should be > ignored when the URI is extracted." Firefox's behavior appears to be > consistent with this. > You may be observing that Gecko's line breaking algorithm is aware of URIs and will break them across lines, but that doesn't change the DOM and is unrelated to how we handle URIs which already have newlines in them. Rob -- "He was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all." [Isaiah 53:5-6] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20090731/6800556a/attachment.htm>
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