346334 - Update on data: uri browser support

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(www.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[David Faure]

Thanks for applying this patch, which udpates the webpage on data uris.

Index: mozilla-org/html/quality/networking/docs/aboutdata.html
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RCS file: /cvsroot/mozilla-org/html/quality/networking/docs/aboutdata.html,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -r1.4 aboutdata.html
--- mozilla-org/html/quality/networking/docs/aboutdata.html	15 Nov 2003 22:37:08 -0000	1.4
+++ mozilla-org/html/quality/networking/docs/aboutdata.html	28 Jul 2006 19:26:38 -0000
@@ -83,8 +83,8 @@
  style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br>
 <br>
 Other browsers:</span><br style="font-weight: bold;">
-The data: protocol is supported by Opera v7.20 and above.<br>
-However, data: URLs are not supported by IE or Safari. If you have time to try
+The data: protocol is supported by Opera v7.20 and above, Konqueror and Safari.<br>
+However, data: URLs are not supported by IE. If you have time to try
 out other browsers, please send us the results.<br>
 <br>
 <span style="font-weight: bold;"> References:</span><br>

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

sheppy, do you know who's in charge of this stuff?

Comment 2

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

I don't even understand what this bug means, so I couldn't begin to guess who's in charge of it. :)

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This bug is about the fact that the documentation at http://www.mozilla.org/quality/networking/docs/aboutdata.html is out of date -- it claims that various other browsers don't implement data: URIs, when they do at this point.

Comment 4

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

Well... given where it is on mozilla.org, I would guess it's a QA specific doc and they should look into it... except it says it's not a QA specific article, which makes me wonder why it's not on MDC instead.

Should this material be moved to MDC when it's updated?  If so, I'll deal with it.  Otherwise, someone in QA should have a look.

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

I think this document should be moved to MDC, yeah.  The reason it's on Mozilla.org is that it predates MDC by a long shot, and that some of the networking docs were basically written by benc...

Comment 6

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

I've got an initial updated version of this document at: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/The_data_URL_scheme

Please feel free to give it a once over and make sure it makes sense.  I fought with this one for some reason, even though it's a pretty simple document.

Comment 7

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

That looks pretty good, except the part about "XML/SGML entities for special characters."  While that part is true in HTML/XML, in a CSS stylesheet you'd need to use CSS character escapes, when setting document.location.href to a data: URI you'd need to use JS \u escapes, etc.

Comment 8

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

I've tweaked the doc to be more generic, simply saying to be sure to escape characters based on the enclosing document's type.  Take a look, let me know if that's okay: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/The_data_URL_scheme#Syntax

Comment 9

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Looks great!  I guess we just need to set up a redirect and resolve this, right?

Comment 10

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

Yeah.  I have no idea offhand how to do that; I've never touched anything on the old site. :)

Comment 11

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

The redirect has been done.  Marking resolved FIXED.