[whatwg] Inconsistent behavior for empty-string URLs

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Thu Mar 11 15:32:06 PST 2010


On Thu, 11 Mar 2010, Simon Pieters wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:40:31 +0100, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> > On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Simon Pieters wrote:
> > > 
> > > I've now looked at a selection of random URLs.
> > > 
> > > Conclusion: None of these seem to need a request to be made. img 
> > > should fire an error event. iframe and frame should use about:blank.
> 
> Did you miss the part about the error event for <img src>? I don't see 
> anything in the spec that says error should be fired for that case.

Oops, the edits in that section were incomplete. Fixed.

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