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Bug 24148 - Reference the URL spec
Summary: Reference the URL spec
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: SVG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Linking (show other bugs)
Version: SVG 2.0
Hardware: PC All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: Test Suite
Assignee: Doug Schepers
QA Contact: SVG Public List
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Reported: 2013-12-20 14:36 UTC by Simon Pieters
Modified: 2014-01-24 23:35 UTC (History)
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Description Simon Pieters 2013-12-20 14:36:41 UTC 
See bug 23968 which is the same issue but for CSS.

As for the url query encoding situation in impl, it's as follows:

d.e. = document's encoding

Element Gecko Blink Presto
a	d.e.  d.e.  d.e.
feImage d.e.  ?     utf-8
image   d.e.  utf-8 utf-8
use     d.e.  d.e.  utf-8

(IE not tested.)

HTML uses the document's encoding for almost everything. It's unclear whether we should be consistent or use utf-8 as much as possible. Hixie argues for the former.
Comment 1 Dirk Schulze 2013-12-20 16:23:45 UTC 
Do you mean the URL spec of the WHATWG?

Read the latest status document (as far as I know) about stability of normative references (which we need here).

I do not think that the WHATWG spec currently fulfills the criteria.
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2014-01-24 21:29:35 UTC 
The WHATWG URL standard is more stable than any W3C or IETF reference on the subject... (and more importantly, more accurate, too)
Comment 3 Dirk Schulze 2014-01-24 23:35:20 UTC 
(In reply to Ian 'Hixie' Hickson from comment #2)
> The WHATWG URL standard is more stable than any W3C or IETF reference on the
> subject... (and more importantly, more accurate, too)

That is great! And still the specification changes nearly everyday and does not fulfill the requirements of the W3C. Which would not be a problem at all, unless you actually want a W3C spec to get a REC at some point.

Would there be daily (but of course then outdated) snapshots that can be referenced, the requirement would be fulfilled and we can finally reference WHATWG specs.