- From: Michael(tm) Smith <mike@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:51:10 +0900
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, www-tag@w3.org
Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, 2008-09-12 11:27 +0200: > Anne van Kesteren wrote: > >> HTML5, as currently drafted, already allows URIs in link/@rel to the same > >> extent @xmlns takes a URI. That is, using a URI as a rel token is allowed > >> (if the extension designer registers it on the wiki), but the token is > >> compared as a string--not as a URI. > > Also, note that such tokens (e.g. stylesheet) are compared in an ASCII > > case-insensitive manner. > > ...where does it say that? It doesn't seem to currently, but I think it's just an oversight. Where browsers actually do something with them, they seem to handle them case insensitively. (Right?) > And what does that imply for the comparison of > relation names that contain non-ASCII characters? I don't think the spec defines any handling of case folding around non-ASCII characters, and not sure what if anything browsers actually do with it either. --Mike -- Michael(tm) Smith http://people.w3.org/mike/
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