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

Daniel Holbert dholbert at mozilla.com
Sat Sep 10 21:01:10 PDT 2011


On 09/10/2011 08:09 PM, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
 > So he would
> make the same suggestion even if everybody implemented the correct beha-
> vior.

No -- sorry if I wasn't clear on that.  A big part of the motivation for 
this proposal right now is the inconsistent level of "forgiveness" 
across browsers right now.  If browsers had already converged on 
"correct" (strict) parsing behavior, I wouldn't be making this proposal.

~Daniel



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