[webkit-dev] Leading new-line in dataTransfer.setData

[Maciej Stachowiak]

On Mar 23, 2010, at 1:01 AM, Roland Steiner wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> On the topic of dataTransfer.setData, there seems to be a small  
> inconsistency between browsers when it comes to leading new-lines.  
> e.g., dataTransfer.setData("text/uri-list", "\nhttp://foo") followed  
> by dataTransfer.getData("URL").
>
> Mozilla returns an empty string (see http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla1.9.2/source/content/events/test/test_dragstart.html 
>  line 271), while e.g., Chromium returns "http://foo".
>
> Now, the HTML5 spec says:
>
>     If the format (after conversion to lowercase) is "url", then the  
> data associated with the "text/uri-list" format must be parsed as  
> appropriate for text/uri-list data, and the first URL from the list  
> must be returned. If there is no data with that format, or if there  
> is but it has no URLs, then the method must return the empty string.
>
> Which I read that the Chromium result is correct (not surprisingly,  
> since I wrote the code ;) ). However, inconsistency is never good,  
> so what would you folks think about this (and what would be the  
> correct Mozilla ML to raise this question)?


text/uri-list is a newline-separated list, right? In which case the  
first URL in the list above is the empty string, and therefore  
Mozilla's behavior is right.

Regards,
Maciej

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