On 2010-03-24 12:54, Henri Sivonen wrote:
I tried to test if the top 4 browser engines have a hard limit on the length of
attribute values in their HTML parsers. If they do, it's somewhere over 6.5
million characters.
Does any one of the top 4 browser engines have a hard limit that is higher than
what I tested?
Does anyone happen to have data on how long attribute values must be allowed
for Web compat?
Hmm! If there is a limit (in moderm browsers) then it's probably close
to the addressable memory limit, so that would be around 2GiB on 32bit
(x86 and similar) systems.
I also believe a max limit is kind of silly in spesifications like this,
it would be better to specify a minimum supported limit instead.
Obviously this minimum need to be based on the lowest common denominator
across the major PC browsers, console, mobile and set-top boxes and
other integrated solutions.
And basically stating that implementers must support this length as
minimum but are encouraged to leave the max as memory limited?
Obviously it would be silly with 6.5MiB attributes as I'd certainly
believe that to be a bug or broken tags myself if encountered.
So if a adviced minimum is stated with a note that implemetors should be
prepared to handle ambiguously large attributes (instead of crashing or
eating up all memory) then that should be enough right?
Roger.
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