- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 01:28:48 +0200
- To: Krzysztof Maczyński <1981km@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
Krzysztof Maczyński wrote: >> "about:blank" MUST return a resource of zero length, containing no >> data, with the media type "text/html" > > This seems to be an invalid document for that MIME type. Either > something should be put in (and something that's a Rec by the time it > becomes an RFC) or the type changed to text/plain;charset=UTF-8. I > believe the latter to be preferable. It has to be done this way for compatibility, as scripts depend on browsers treating about:blank as an HTML document in quirks mode. e.g. sites that use this: <iframe src="about:blank"></iframe> And then add content to the document with scripts. -- Lachlan Hunt - Opera Software http://lachy.id.au/ http://www.opera.com/
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