[whatwg] [URL] Starting work on a URL spec

• From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
• Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:08:50 -0400
• Message-ID: <4C4CA7E2.4070204@mit.edu>

On 7/25/10 3:05 PM, Adam Barth wrote:
> I don't know of any way to do that.  I can tell you that in WebKit,
> the function that usually gets called to resolve URLs (called
> completeURL if you want to look it up in the source) returns a
> canonicalized URL.

The same is true in Gecko.  The way an nsIURI object is typically 
constructed is from an nsIURI base (possibly null) and a URL string, and 
the return value is resolved and canonicalized.

-Boris

Received on Sunday, 25 July 2010 14:08:50 UTC