2010/7/25 Boris Zbarsky <[email protected]>: > On 7/25/10 8:57 AM, Adam Barth wrote: >>> There's also the related question of what browsers should do with input >>> typed into the URL field. Other than establishing that these rules may be >>> different between the URL field and URLs present in content, I'm not sure >>> this is amenable to spec. But perhaps a survey of what browsers do would be >>> useful. >> >> I wasn't planning to cover that because it's not a critical to >> interoperability > > Unfortunately, it is. In particular, servers need to know what to > expect the browser to send if a user types non-ASCII into the url bar. > There are real interoperability problems out there due to differing > server and browser behavior in this regard. > > It may not be an _html_ interoperability problem, but it's certainly a > _web_ interoperability problem. > >> There are also other >> considerations there because the URLs are displayed to users as >> security indicators. > > What's displayed is not a concern, in my opinion, in terms of > interoperability. What's put on the wire is. The constraints that need > to be imposed are much looser than on <a href> (e.g. we don't need to > define exactly what url gets loaded if the user types "monkey" in the > url bar), but sorting out the non-ASCII issue is definitely desirable.
Okiedokes. I'll add that to my list of things to pay attention to. I can't promise I'll get to it in this round though. Thanks, Adam
