On 10 Nov 2002, it is alleged that Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. sauntered in
to netscape.public.mozilla.documentation and loudly proclaimed:
Brant Langer Gurganus wrote:
I am trying to come up with a document for bug 74263 involving where
Mozilla has intentionally deviated from the standards.  If you know of
where Mozilla has done this, please let me know.  I know about <blink>
and <marquee>.  Please make sure your replies go to the
netscape.public.mozilla.documentation list only.
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Brant Langer Gurganus
Default QA Contact, Europe: West
Mozilla Technology Evangelism
How about: when someone has mistyped a link with spaces.
In Netscape Communicator if it came across such a link it would show an
error first in fine print abount the Apache Sever version then either a
400 error or 404 error. According to W3C standards this is correct
action.
In Mozilla and Netscape 7 they automatically insert %20 where the spaces
are located and thus allowing link to work. This is some what equivelent
to IE's action of self-healing a site which has missing tags.
Phillip, I could /swear/ we went thro' this several months ago, with the conclusion that the appropriate RFC was not entirely clear as to whether ' ' should be escaped or not. That is, it /is/ escaping it properly; whether it /should/ be doing so is another matter.

It's not clear whether choking on it is appropriate behaviour.

And never, ever use NC as a benchmark. NC showed alt tooltips, too, after all.

And this is not at /all/ like IE's behaviour.

I suspect that the behaviour is allowed more on the basis of how files are at times named -- the way in which some software will name MP3s, for instance, is a case in point.

/b.

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