| Summary: | <img src="#"> requests main document resource unnecessarily | ||
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| Product: | WebKit | Reporter: | Vsevolod Vlasov <vsevik> |
| Component: | Page Loading | Assignee: | Nobody <webkit-unassigned> |
| Status: | NEW --- | ||
| Severity: | Normal | CC: | ap, darin, ian, japhet, m.goleb+bugzilla |
| Priority: | P2 | ||
| Version: | 528+ (Nightly build) | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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Description
Vsevolod Vlasov
2011-12-14 04:59:47 PST
Empty URL is a special case in HTML5. We'll need new research for src="#", and a change in the spec if it's warranted. See <http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-December/024357.html> for a discussion that resulted in changing the spec for empty URLs. What do other browsers do? I used following test cases: 1. <img src=""></img> 2. <img src="#"></img> 3. <img src="#test"></img> Opera 11 makes only one request (main document) in each case, so they are ignoring fragment and consider "#" an empty url. Firefox 3.6 makes one request in the first case and two in other cases. Firefox 8 makes two requests in each case (so they are making two requests for src="" again!) Chromium/Safari with ToT webkit make one request in the first case and two in other cases as we would expect. > Firefox 8 makes two requests in each case (so they are making two requests for src="" again!) Please file a bugzilla.mozilla.org bug for them to fix. > Chromium/Safari with ToT webkit make one request in the first case and two in other cases as we would expect. Getting a spec change first is probably the best way to go about this. Would you be willing to e-mail WHATWG? How common is this? Unless it's really common (why would it be?) I'd suggest not doing anything special for the latter two cases. (src="" is common because it's the default value.) |