- From: Steven Pemberton <xhtml2-issues@hades.mn.aptest.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:14:13 -0600 (CST)
- To: jim@jibbering.com
- Cc: www-html-editor@w3.org
> Dear HTML Working Group, > > "The user agent derives a new URI from the URI specified by the href > attribute of the element, by appending a '?' followed by the x and y > coordinates, seperated by a comma." > > What happens if the href already contains a ? > ie > <p href="http://www.example.com/cgi-bin/map?chickens" > src="map.png" ismap="ismap"> > Our location. > </p> > > Please clarify this so the result is not > http://www.example.com/cgi-bin/map?chickens?1,1 Thanks for your comment. Actually, this is exactly what happens, and is intended. You could, for example, include a number of other parameters in the URI, the final portion being "&coords=" and the resulting URI would be ...&coords=?1,1 - a server side application could easily parse this. Best wishes, Steven Pemberton For the HTML WG
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