Re: Non-http: methods in CSS URL()

On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Robin Berjon wrote:
> 
> Philip TAYLOR wrote:
> > What would list members expect to be the
> > result of the following code fragment ?
> > 
> >     <SPAN STYLE="background-image: url(mailto:p.taylor@rhul.ac.uk)">
> >         &nbsp;
> >     </SPAN>
> 
> I would expect user agents to apply common sense judiciously and not attempt
> to traverse links for schemes that do not permit the retrieval of resources.

Hear hear.

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