Re: [css3-values] Invalid URI and IRI

On 2012-05-17 16:26, Simon Sapin wrote:
> Le 17/05/2012 12:37, Julian Reschke a écrit :
>> On 2012-05-17 12:12, Simon Sapin wrote:
>>> RFC 3986 (the latest on URIs) only uses a subset of ASCII characters.
>>> Everything else is invalid/illegal, including all characters above
>>> U+007F.
>>
>> ...because characters above U+007F are not ASCII characters.
>
>
> Yes of course. I only wanted to point out that it is easy for authors to
> write something that is not valid according to RFC 3986.

Ack. I just wanted to clarify because there are still people out there 
believing in the existence of ASCII characters beyond U+007F :-)

>> Also, my understanding is that HTML5 doesn't make anything valid that is
>> invalid as IRI.
>
> If I read correctly, compared to URIs, IRIs "only" add non-private
> non-ASCII codepoints to the list of unreserved characters. In HTML5 on
> the other hand, every codepoint that is not reserved or '%' is
> unreserved. For example '>' is valid in the later but not in the former.
>
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3987#section-2.2
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/urls.html#parsing-urls

That's the parsing section. See 
<http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/urls.html#terminology-0>.

 > ...

Best regards, Julian

Received on Thursday, 17 May 2012 14:51:51 UTC