On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, Jonas Sicking wrote: > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 8:50 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > > On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, Jonas Sicking wrote: > >> > >> Julian, your change proposal claims that this is not needed for > >> interoperability. Do you have any data showing this other than the > >> fact that webkit-based browsers and opera does not implement this? > > > > That's actually not a fact. The browsers are pretty consistent in > > their handling of backslashes -- none of them do what Julian's CP > > proposes, they all just treat them the same as any other punctuation: > > > > http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10806#c10 > > Ah, based on that, if Julians change proposal is accepted, could we at > least add a warning to the specification so that browsers know to tread > carefully if they do attempt to implement this part of the spec? Sure. > Of course, ideally I'd prefer that the spec aligned with browsers. The current spec text is an attempt at doing that, FWIW. This is an area with some lack of interoperability in a number of edge cases, though, so it's not an exact description of any one browser. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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