[whatwg] [URL] Starting work on a URL spec
Brett Zamir
brettz9 at yahoo.com
Fri Jul 23 22:50:17 PDT 2010
On 7/24/2010 12:02 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
> On 7/23/10 11:59 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote:
>> Is that URLs as values of attributes in HTML or is that URLs as pasted
>> into the address bar? I believe their processing differs...
>
> It certainly does in Firefox (the latter have a lot more fixup done to
> them, and there are also differences in terms of how character
> encodings are handled).
>
> I would be particularly interested in data on this last, across
> different browsers, operating systems, and locales... There seem to
> be servers out there expecting their URIs in UTF-8 and others
> expecting them in ISO-8859-1, and it's not clear to me how to make
> things work with them all.
Seems to me that if they are not in UTF-8, they should be treated as
bugs, even if that is not a de jure standard.
Brett
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