Re: [whatwg] Parsing of meta refresh needs tweaking

2015-01-07 Thread Simon Pieters
On Wed, 07 Jan 2015 08:55:02 +0100, Julian Reschke julian.resc...@gmx.de wrote: On 2015-01-07 08:52, Simon Pieters wrote: ... I hear (a) these pages have been broken in IE for a long time, and (b) only 23 (?) pages in your DB are found. Right. So why not just leave them broken? It's

Re: [whatwg] Parsing of meta refresh needs tweaking

2015-01-06 Thread Julian Reschke
On 2015-01-07 08:52, Simon Pieters wrote: ... I hear (a) these pages have been broken in IE for a long time, and (b) only 23 (?) pages in your DB are found. Right. So why not just leave them broken? It's a worse user experience and it's a shorter path to interop to change IE. ... User

[whatwg] Parsing of meta refresh needs tweaking

2014-12-11 Thread Simon Pieters
The spec's parsing rules of meta refresh causes infinite reloading on some pages. In particular, the spec requires the url= to be present, but there are pages that omit it. IE9 also requires url= apparently. Gecko/Blink/WebKit allow url= to be omitted. For example, there is