If I use a data: URI with backslashes in the data, the backslashes get canonicalized to forward slashes, which is incorrect. Example: <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <title>Page Title</title> </head> <body> <object data="data:text/html;charset=utf8,<b>this</b> is a \'test'"></object> </body> </html> The rendered text is: this is a /'test'
Confirmed with WebKit 418.9 and ToT. This may be caused by a bug in another component of the operating system.
See also: bug 10323.
Fixed as bug 16692. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 16692 ***