Re: [whatwg] IE/Win treats backslashes in path as forward slashes

2008-06-27 Thread Ian Hickson
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Geoffrey Sneddon wrote: Looking through the spec again, there is nothing about backslashes in URI's path being treated as a forward slash, behaviour needed for compatibility for quite a few websites. On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Gervase Markham wrote: I would be rather

Re: [whatwg] IE/Win treats backslashes in path as forward slashes

2008-06-27 Thread Michael A. Puls II
On 6/27/08, Ian Hickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Michael A. Puls II wrote: However, we can't specify this for all URIs (just saying). Flipping raw backslashes (even though they should really be encoded) in a href=mailto:uridata; for example, should not be done.

Re: [whatwg] IE/Win treats backslashes in path as forward slashes

2007-04-12 Thread Julian Reschke
Maciej Stachowiak schrieb: ... Besides the backslash thing, there are a number of URI processing rules that browsers must follow for web compatibility which are either not required by or directly contradictory to the URI RFCs. Documenting these and fixing the relevant RFCs would be a valuable

Re: [whatwg] IE/Win treats backslashes in path as forward slashes

2007-04-12 Thread Julian Reschke
Anne van Kesteren schrieb: On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:43:55 +0200, Julian Reschke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maciej Stachowiak schrieb: ... Besides the backslash thing, there are a number of URI processing rules that browsers must follow for web compatibility which are either not required by or

Re: [whatwg] IE/Win treats backslashes in path as forward slashes

2007-04-12 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:24:54 +0200, Julian Reschke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems to me that at least this thread does not point out bugs in RFC3986 or RFC3987, but problems in user agents that do not follow these specs. Or stated otherwise: in reality, URIs in HTML documents are not

[whatwg] IE/Win treats backslashes in path as forward slashes

2007-04-11 Thread Geoffrey Sneddon
Looking through the spec again, there is nothing about backslashes in URI's path being treated as a forward slash, behaviour needed for compatibility for quite a few websites. - Geoffrey Sneddon

Re: [whatwg] IE/Win treats backslashes in path as forward slashes

2007-04-11 Thread Gervase Markham
Geoffrey Sneddon wrote: Looking through the spec again, there is nothing about backslashes in URI's path being treated as a forward slash, behaviour needed for compatibility for quite a few websites. I would be rather surprised if that were true, given that Firefox doesn't do it and I've

Re: [whatwg] IE/Win treats backslashes in path as forward slashes

2007-04-11 Thread Bill Mason
Gervase Markham wrote: Looking through the spec again, there is nothing about backslashes in URI's path being treated as a forward slash, behaviour needed for compatibility for quite a few websites. I would be rather surprised if that were true, given that Firefox doesn't do it and I've

Re: [whatwg] IE/Win treats backslashes in path as forward slashes

2007-04-11 Thread Philip Taylor
On 11/04/07, Gervase Markham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Geoffrey Sneddon wrote: Looking through the spec again, there is nothing about backslashes in URI's path being treated as a forward slash, behaviour needed for compatibility for quite a few websites. I would be rather surprised if that

Re: [whatwg] IE/Win treats backslashes in path as forward slashes

2007-04-11 Thread Sander Tekelenburg
At 3:13 PM +0100 UTC, on 4/11/07, Gervase Markham wrote: Geoffrey Sneddon wrote: Looking through the spec again, there is nothing about backslashes in URI's path being treated as a forward slash, behaviour needed for compatibility for quite a few websites. I would be rather surprised if

Re: [whatwg] IE/Win treats backslashes in path as forward slashes

2007-04-11 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 18:38:11 +0200, Jon Barnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this more the realm of an RFC (3986 and 3987) instead of HTML5? Jon Barnett Probably, unless you restrict the special handling to a few HTML attributes. -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/

Re: [whatwg] IE/Win treats backslashes in path as forward slashes

2007-04-11 Thread Kornel Lesinski
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:13:09 +0100, Gervase Markham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking through the spec again, there is nothing about backslashes in URI's path being treated as a forward slash, behaviour needed for compatibility for quite a few websites. I would be rather surprised if that

Re: [whatwg] IE/Win treats backslashes in path as forward slashes

2007-04-11 Thread Kornel Lesinski
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:02:39 +0100, Geoffrey Sneddon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking through the spec again, there is nothing about backslashes in URI's path being treated as a forward slash, behaviour needed for compatibility for quite a few websites. I think it can be added. RFC 1738