Given all of this info, does anyone believe there's further investigation necessary before making a recommendation for this change?
-Nicholas ______________________________________________ Commander Lock: "Damnit Morpheus, not everyone believes what you believe!" Morpheus: "My beliefs do not require them to." -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Simon Pieters Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 2:30 AM To: Nicholas Zakas; Jonas Sicking Cc: Maciej Stachowiak; [email protected]; Aryeh Gregor Subject: Re: [whatwg] Inconsistent behavior for empty-string URLs On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:03:01 +0100, Nicholas Zakas <[email protected]> wrote: > Here are the results of testing various tags with empty URLs across > different browsers. The table below indicates how many requests are sent > when the given tag is encountered on the page (curiously, Firefox 3 > sometimes sends two extra requests). Even though the <link> tags don't > show it in the table, they all had href="". > > IE7 IE8 FF3 FF3.5 > SF4 Ch3 Op10 > <img src=""> 1 1 1 0 1 > 1 0 > <link rel="stylesheet"> 0 0 1 1 1 > 1 0 > <link rel="icon"> 0 0 2 1 > 1 1 0 > <link rel="shortcut icon"> 0 0 2 1 1 > 1 0 > <link rel="prefetch"> 0 0 2 0 0 > 0 0 > <script src=""> 0 0 1 1 1 > 1 0 > <iframe src=""> 0 0 0 0 0 > 0 0 > <input type="image" src=""> 1 1 1 0 1 > 1 0 > <object data=""> 0 0 1 1 > 0 0 0 > <embed src=""> 0 0 0 0 0 > 0 0 > <html manifest=""> 0 0 0 0 1 > 0 0 > > For the most part, no two browsers act the same. Safari and Chrome are > the closest (not surprising). > > Apply a base URL via <base> in all cases didn't change the results, > except in IE, where it prevented the extra image request from being > made. Thanks. IIRC, IE doesn't make a request when using minimized attribute syntax, i.e. "<img src>" (because it drops the attribute during parsing). -- Simon Pieters Opera Software
