Re: Apple Safari Bug with Hash-based Identitifiers?

Thanks for the detailed reply! Let's hope they will fix it sooner or later.
I also filed a new bug report # 16609174 in https://bugreport.apple.com/, but I afaik you cannot see other people's bug reports in that system.
 
Best
Martin


On 14 Apr 2014, at 19:21, Markus Lanthaler <markus.lanthaler@gmx.net> wrote:

> On Monday, April 14, 2014 6:51 PM, martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org wrote:
>> I just found a strange bug (?) in Safari (under various Apple OS X
>> versions) that can cause problems with purl.org-based Semantic Web
>> ontologies:
>> 
>> If you click on the link of a URI reference that includes a hash
>> fragment, like
>> 
>>    http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#DayOfWeek
>> 
>> then Apple Safari resolves this to
>> 
>>    http://www.heppnetz.de/ontologies/goodrelations/v1
> 
> Yeah, this is a very old bug: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24175 
> 
> 
>> I am not sure which behavior is standards-compliant, but from a user's
>> perspective, Chrome is much better in here if you have many hash-based
>> identifiers in an HTML document.
> 
> This behavior was underspecified in RFC2616 (see also [1]). It has been
> clarified in httpbis [2] which should obsolete RFC2616 shortly:
> 
>  "If the Location value provided in a 3xx (Redirection) does not have a
>   fragment component, a user agent MUST process the redirection as if
>   the value inherits the fragment component of the URI reference used
>   to generate the request target (i.e., the redirection inherits the
>   original reference's fragment, if any)."
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Markus
> 
> 
> [1] http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/Fragment/draft-bos-http-redirect-00.txt
> [2]
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics-26#section-7.1.2
> 
> 
> --
> Markus Lanthaler
> @markuslanthaler
> 
>

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