On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Bjoern Hoehrmann <[email protected]> wrote: > * Boris Zbarsky wrote: >>If you assume that this is a hierarchical scheme and that the hierarchy >>is in some particular place, no? Why is that assumption being made? > > Turning relative references into absolute ones is a generic operation > that works the same for all schemes, as far as RFC 1808 (published in > 1995) and its successors are concerned.
That's in part why I wrote http://url.spec.whatwg.org/ as implementations do not do that. E.g. http:test resolves to http://test/ if base URL's scheme is not http. It does not cover jar: at the moment though as that's not supported by everyone. -- http://annevankesteren.nl/
