[whatwg] URL standard: Query string parsing; host parsing

Anne van Kesteren annevk at annevk.nl
Mon Aug 19 03:56:44 PDT 2013


On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk at annevk.nl> wrote:
> As far as I can tell the most prominent implementations still
> implement IDNA2003. In fact, with Rebel Opera gone, all browsers do
> IDNA2003. So maybe we should standardize on that. The problem with
> standardizing on that of course is that it runs counter to registrar
> policies :-(

I've done this now: http://url.spec.whatwg.org/

Turns out it's not exactly IDNA 2003, but IDNA 2003 with the latest
version of Unicode. (Lesson: don't design your protocol around a
particular version of Unicode, implementations won't obey.)


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