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

[Daniel Holbert]

On 09/12/2011 12:47 PM, Michal Zalewski wrote:
> What about javascript: URLs?
>
> Right now, every browser seems to treat javascript:alert('#') in an
> "intuitive" manner.

FWIW -- in Gecko, I believe we actually do split "#')" out as a fragment 
identifier there (under-the-hood in our URI parsing code).

However, fragment identifiers don't have any special significance in 
"javascript:" URIs, so the "javascript:" handler ends up requesting the 
full URI, ignoring any distinction between the pre-# and post-# part.

~Daniel