- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 11:05:20 -0800
- To: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
On 11/14/12 10:35 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > Chrome's implementation (except for parsing invalid IPv4) makes a lot > of sense I think as it allows for minimizing what needs to be stored > internally. It only requires a sequence of eight 16-bit components. I believe Gecko simply stores the original string (lowercased), modulo IDN stuff. Since this works for both DNS names and IP addresses, a requirement that some other representation be stored is actually a bit of an implementation annoyance... -Boris
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