- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:49:41 -0700
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 4:55 AM, Kartikaya Gupta <lists.whatwg at stakface.com> wrote: > On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:01:34 -0400, Biju <bijumaillist at gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Kartikaya Gupta >> > This behavior seems rather inconsistent and possibly buggy. >> >> At first look I also thought it is inconsistent >> But later I found Firefox is very consistent. >> I think reason why it happening like that is because Firefox clean up >> URL by removing extra slash before host name >> and adding a slash after host name and also convert host name to lowercase. >> > > Well, yes, I'm sure there is a simple set of rules that will explain this behavior from the implementation point of view. However, it is inconsistent for the average user. > > The behavior where nulling out the hostname causes the first path component to become the hostname is particularly odd, IMO. I can't think of any use of this behavior that would be considered anything other than an ugly hack. What would you suggest should happen instead? I don't see a reason why we wouldn't be ok with changing how firefox behaves here, but discussions about better ways of doing it are a lot more productive than discussions about how bad the current behavior is. / Jonas
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