10137 2010-07-12 18:49:48 +0000 What criteria should browsers use to determine whether a URL's hash fragment differs from the previous one? Should the comparison be case-sensitive? Currently, all implementations of hashchange use case-sensitive comparisons except IE8, which uses a case- 2010-10-04 14:46:27 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) unspecified Other other CLOSED FIXED http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#history-traversal P3 normal --- 1 contributor ian ian mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking ryan public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 36774 0 contributor 2010-07-12 18:49:48 +0000 Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#history-traversal Comment: What criteria should browsers use to determine whether a URL's hash fragment differs from the previous one? Should the comparison be case-sensitive? Currently, all implementations of hashchange use case-sensitive comparisons except IE8, which uses a case-insensitive comparison. Posted from: 76.27.193.61 39367 1 ian 2010-09-25 17:58:54 +0000 Why would it be case-insensitive? EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Accepted Change Description: see diff given below Rationale: UAs differ so we need to clarify. 39368 2 contributor 2010-09-25 17:59:15 +0000 Checked in as WHATWG revision r5489. Check-in comment: Only compare fragments for onhashchange, to make this work better with pushState(). Also, define it as case-sensitive. http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=5488&to=5489 39396 3 ryan 2010-09-25 19:38:00 +0000 Perfect. Closing (I was the original commenter).