[whatwg] base64 entities
Julian Reschke
julian.reschke at gmx.de
Thu Aug 26 13:30:00 PDT 2010
On 26.08.2010 22:10, Aryeh Gregor wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 5:58 AM, Julian Reschke<julian.reschke at gmx.de> wrote:
>> Not convinced. There's already one way to escape these things, and this is
>> supported in all UAs.
>
> Adam gave two examples of cases where htmlspecialchars() is
> insufficient, even if authors do use it. This proposal is completely
> general and will work anywhere, even in<script>. Is automated
> general escaping even possible right now in<script> for text/html?
OK, sorry for my multiple posts.
I now get the point about the additional problems in script, but I fail
to see how the proposal addresses this, unless expanding these entities
is suppose to happen *after* parsing the script.
Best regards, Julian
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