On 09/13/2016 08:55 AM, William A Rowe Jr wrote:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 9:19 PM, Eric Covener <cove...@gmail.com
<mailto:cove...@gmail.com>> wrote:
For others who might hit a maze of closed/duped bug reports this one
is active this year:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1064700
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1064700>
Makes for some disturbing reading... the amount of misinformation
is truly mind-boggling (especially if you chase down the other reports.)
Their aspirational goal of duplicating the mistakes of other the clients
speaks for the wider UA community... sigh. Firefox since 'uncorrected'
their originally correct handling of '[' and ']' to be equally out-of-spec.
One of the comments there points to
https://url.spec.whatwg.org/
What is this? Is this the newest "there are a bunch of almost-right
implementations so let's make yet another standard in the hopes that it
won't make things worse"? Does anyone know the history behind this spec?
--Jacob
