Literal slashes in javascript: IRIs

Hi,

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hoehrmann-javascript-scheme-00 says:
> Use of a byte order mark and literal use of the character "/" should  
> be avoided.


The latter requirement seems impractical. Why is this requirement  
present? Could it be relaxed?

It doesn't seem particularly plausible that javascript: IRI would  
participate in a generic IRI/URI operation absolutizing a relative  
reference relative to a javascript: IRI. Letting a javascript: URI  
serve as the base URI of an HTML document seems non-sensical, for  
example, regardless of the presence of slashes.

-- 
Henri Sivonen
hsivonen@iki.fi
http://hsivonen.iki.fi/

Received on Friday, 23 November 2007 10:32:53 UTC