[whatwg] Inconsistent behavior for empty-string URLs

Thu Dec 17 16:51:44 PST 2009

On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:58:03 +0100, Simon Pieters <simonp at opera.com> wrote:

> I asked Philip to provide some data about pages using empty attributes  
> for these:
>
> <Philip`> zcorpan: http://philip.html5.org/data/empty-url-attributes.txt
> <Philip`> zcorpan:  
> http://philip.html5.org/data/empty-url-link-attributes.txt
>
>
> I have not looked at these yet,

(and still haven't, just made the data slightly more digestible)


> but it would probably be good to do so before changing things, so we  
> have an idea what the compat impact is.

http://simon.html5.org/dump/empty-url-attributes.xml

<img src>, 3221 occurrences
<script src>, 248 occurrences
<iframe src>, 1862 occurrences
<video src>, 0 occurrences
<video poster>, 0 occurrences
<audio src>, 0 occurrences
<object data>, 0 occurrences
<embed src>, 74 occurrences
<source src>, 0 occurrences
<input src>, 55 occurrences
<command icon>, 0 occurrences
<html manifest>, 0 occurrences
<applet code>, 0 occurrences
<frame src>, 53 occurrences
<body background>, 1665 occurrences


http://simon.html5.org/dump/empty-url-link-attributes.xml

<link rel=icon>, 243 occurrences
<link rel=prefetch>, 0 occurrences
<link rel=stylesheet>, 115 occurrences

-- 
Simon Pieters
Opera Software