[whatwg] IRIs and javascript: scheme

[Ian Hickson]

On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Christian Schmidt wrote:
>
> Most modern browsers support the following:
> <a href="javascript:alert(123)">foo</a>
> 
> AFAICS "javascript:alert(123)" is not a valid IRI according to RFC 3987 
> (it should be "javascript:alert%28123%29" instead) and is thus not 
> allowed in an <input type="url"> field. This is somewhat surprising to 
> me, and I think it will confuse users that they now have to manually 
> escape their javascript: URLs when entering them in url input fields.
>
> Would it cause any problems to somehow allow the unescaped form in url 
> input fields? Or is that a dangerous road to go down?

I've allowed the user agent to escape user input. I don't think we should 
ever submit an invalid URI or IRI.

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