Re: [whatwg] questions on URL spec based on reviewing galimatias test results

On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net> wrote:
> Here is a screen capture of the live DOM URL viewer:
>
> http://i.imgur.com/kbsTDQ7.png
>
> Here are the test results for Chrome on Windows:
>
> http://intertwingly.net/tmp/81cd494abd36509f0d46010b0c4d4ff9
>
> It appears that Chrome implements this, but (a) only on Windows, and (b)
> only if the base scheme is "file".

Yeah, file URL parsing in browsers is OS-dependent. A goal of the URL
standard is to at least get parsing aligned so new URL() becomes
platform-independent. Implementers thus far have not been overtly
enthusiastic about that, but hopefully that will improve over time.


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Received on Thursday, 30 October 2014 11:14:52 UTC