[whatwg] Web Addresses vs Legacy Extended IRI

Anne van Kesteren annevk at opera.com
Mon Mar 23 04:54:43 PDT 2009


On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:50:46 +0100, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke at gmx.de>  
wrote:
> ...and other characters that are not allowed in URIs and IRIs, such as  
> "{" and "}" (which therefore can be used as delimiters).

And keeping them invalid but requiring user agents to handle those  
characters as part of a URL (after it has been determined what the URL is  
for a given context) does not work because?


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