- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 11:09:11 +0200
On 2011-09-11 04:51, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > ... > I think you misunderstand my position. I'm weakly against the proposal > in question; the strongest argument in favor of the proposal is that > there is either a current or future deployed base of data: URIs that > won't work without it but do work in either past browsers or some subset > of future ones. > > Of course the simplest way to prevent the future URIs thing being a > problem is for UAs that don't follow the URI spec here right now to fix > that, but I haven't sensed much willingness to do that in the past, or > earlier in this discussion. :( > ... +1 for trying to sanitize the parsing in Firefox. Given the fact that this change made it into the release without any major uproar there might be a chance that other UAs might simply adopt it. > Given the choice between converging on this proposal and the status quo > in which UAs just do wildly different totally wacky things, I'd pick the > proposal, I think.... If we can't get the perfect fix (UAs consistently doing what the spec says), then of course converging on something that is less broken than before may be good. Best regards, Julian
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