[whatwg] Proposal for improved handling of '#' inside of data URIs

[Boris Zbarsky]

On 9/10/11 7:53 PM, Nils Dagsson Moskopp wrote:
> Is fragment use in data URIs possible at all?

Possible, and desirable; otherwise SVG data: URIs are pretty much useless.

> The last point – interoperability – is satisfied by any widely
> implemented outcome. The first point – author expectations – I
> question. So, how often does this occur?

Having a '#' in the document being encoded in a data: URI?  Pretty much 
any time the document includes any CSS (colors) or SVG (paint servers 
and the like).

-Boris