- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2019 19:26:12 +0200
- To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>, David Bokan <bokan@chromium.org>
- Cc: uri@w3.org
On 05.09.2019 19:09, Roy T. Fielding wrote: >> On Sep 5, 2019, at 9:37 AM, David Bokan <bokan@chromium.org >> <mailto:bokan@chromium.org>> wrote: >> >> Hello all, >> >> I'd like to get some broader feedback on the proposal of a "fragment >> directive". The basic idea is to encode a section of the URL fragment >> for "UA instructions". e.g. >> >> https://example.org#fragment##fragment-directive >> <https://example.org/#fragment##fragment-directive> > > Absolutely not. Only one # is allowed in a reference because some > implementations parse > left-to-right (correctly) and others parse right-to-left (incorrectly), > and there is absolutely > nothing you can say or do that will ever make that interoperable in > practice. > ... Indeed. But I wonder why exactly why parsing right-to-left would be incorrect? Can you explain why? Best regards, Julian
Received on Thursday, 5 September 2019 17:26:41 UTC