The change seems reasonable to me. It just seems that the same change should be made in all cases that cause similar issues, making it the rule of the spec instead of an exception for this one case. Does that make sense?
-Nicholas ______________________________________________ Commander Lock: "Damnit Morpheus, not everyone believes what you believe!" Morpheus: "My beliefs do not require them to." -----Original Message----- From: Simon Pieters [mailto:sim...@opera.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 1:27 AM To: Aryeh Gregor; Nicholas Zakas Cc: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org Subject: Re: [whatwg] Inconsistent behavior for empty-string URLs On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:52:41 +0100, Aryeh Gregor <simetrical+...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't know why <img src=""> has a special exception. It would be > possible to look through the svn log to see if there was a helpful > commit message, or maybe someone will remember. I seem to remember someone from Mozilla mentioned that they recently changed the behavior for img, so Hixie changed the spec for img. -- Simon Pieters Opera Software