On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Ian Hickson <[email protected]> wrote: > User agents are required to treat U+0001 the same as, say, "A".
Yeah that is how I understood the specification. >> And testing in Firefox and Chrome it appears these characters are >> ignored. But I see no mention of this anywhere to ignore them or how to >> handle them. > > Do you have a test case demonstrating this? When I tested it it seemed > like the characters were not ignored: > > http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/?saved=1824 Oh nevermind me. Saving the page and using a hex editor I see that it still is there. Sorry I was inspecting the DOM and the control characters are invisible characters (early in the morning and my brain is not functioning correctly). So section '3.2.5.1.5 Phrasing content' is only referring to conforming documents when it mentions that text nodes and attribute values should not include control characters other than space characters?
