[whatwg] Remove addCueRange/removeCueRanges

Anne van Kesteren annevk at opera.com
Fri Aug 14 23:58:10 PDT 2009


On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 08:47:32 +0200, Jonas Sicking <jonas at sicking.cc> wrote:
> The problem is that you can't use fragment identifiers with data-URIs.
>
> For example
>
> data:text/plain,hello world#frag
>
> Represents a text/plain document with the contents:
>
> hello world#frag
>
> It does not represent the 'frag' part of a document with the text 'hello  
> world'.

Actually, I think that is false (and a bug in Firefox). At the time the data URI RFC was written RFC 2396 was still the URI RFC and there fragment identifiers were not a formal part of the URI syntax but rather something you could append to any URI during retrieval operations, which is clearly what data URIs are for.


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