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

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Current votes: None.

On 2011-09-12 21:47, Michal Zalewski wrote:
> What about javascript: URLs?
>
> Right now, every browser seems to treat javascript:alert('#') in an
> "intuitive" manner.
>
> This likely goes beyond data: and javascript:, so I think it would be
> useful to look at it more holistically.

Maybe. Or it makes sense to do it one at a time :-).

Observation: javascript: IMHO isn't a URI scheme (it just occupies a 
place in the same lexical space), so maybe the right thing to do is to 
document it as historic exception that only exists in browsers.

Best regards, Julian