- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:15:33 -0700
- To: Yves Lafon <ylafon@w3.org>
- CC: Bert Bos <bert@w3.org>, www-style@w3.org
Yves Lafon wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Jul 2009, Bert Bos wrote:
>
>> It doesn't create a special case, but the obligation for an author to
>> escape commas and characters that cannot occur in a value, such as
>> unbalanced parentheses and semicolons:
>>
>> http://example.org/foo?s10,34;x={}
>>
>> would have to be written as:
>>
>> http://example.org/image?s10\,34\;x=\{\}
>>
>> (This creates some 13 tokens, if I counted correctly.)
>>
>> I'm all for omitting parentheses and quotes when possible, but for URLs
>> I don't think it is possible.
>
> Frankly I can't think of an author escaping URIs that way, see how & are
> not escaped in HTML hrefs... using url() which is an existing construct
> not only gives what is expected but also gives the same user experience
> for authors, ie: "Oh for this property should I use url() or not" is a
> good recipe for errors.
We already have this problem with url(). Commas, brackets, etc.
must be escaped inside url() unless the URI is quoted. The same
rule is proposed for image(): if you have weird characters, or
if you just want to be safe, use quotes.
~fantasai
Received on Tuesday, 21 July 2009 20:16:06 UTC