[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 68089] WebKit doesn't parse "#" as delimiter for fragment identifier in data URIs

Fri Oct 21 13:11:11 PDT 2011

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68089

--- Comment #30 from Daniel Holbert <dholbert at mozilla.com>  2011-10-21 13:11:10 PST ---
(In reply to comment #29)
> So, for example, clicking on the link in that appears at the beginning of the result of interpreting
> 
>  data:application/xhtml+xml,<html xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><a href='#target'>go green</a>  [etc]

I would agree with you if you replaced "#" with "%23".

But in the URI as you provided it, the "#" technically terminates the main portion of the URI and indicates the beginning of the fragment-identifier.  So your URI just contains this (invalid) XML:
> <html xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><a href='
and that's it.

This is how both Opera and Firefox handle that URI, when they load it directly.  I agree that this strict behavior is a bit unintuitive (see the whatwg thread I started about trying to make it better[1]), but the general consensus in that thread was that the strict behavior (that Firefox implements) is correct.

http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2011-September/033162.html

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