Am 01.06.2012 um 21:01 schrieb Julian Reschke: > On 2012-06-01 20:24, Kornel Lesiński wrote: >> ... >>>> If there are commas or backslashes in the URL they must be escaped with >>>> `\`. >>> This is another problem why I would separate the diff. srces. >>> Escaping an URL is not something that should be necessary in HTML I think. >> >> I agree, it's ugly, but otherwise you get ambiguous syntax for entries >> without descriptor or media query. >> >> I thought about specifying some magic, like ignoring trailing comma in URL, >> but all such magical solutions have surprising edge cases. Explicit escaping >> is at least easy to comprehend. >> ... > > An alternative is to pick different delimiters. See, for instance, > <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2295#section-8.3>. > Best regards, Julian
I also would like to see another delimiting syntax which is clearer. What about JSON-syntax or just " | "? I mean a backslash is not that common in a URL but commas are more and more and you all know that escaping is no fun. So we should really try to avoid this. -Anselm
