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Re:Firefox 30.0 by DavidBradbury on Tuesday June 10, 2014 @05:16PM (#7875371)
I know you have 'bug' in quotes, but man, you know perfectly well that's not a bug and it would be complete silliness to allow that.
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Re:Firefox 30.0 by cozuya on Tuesday June 10, 2014 @06:13PM (#7875618)
Is it though? I know standards are important, but what does it really cost a browser maker to be able to resolve paths with backslashes? Similarly, is it really that big of a deal to support background-position-x and y? The prime example of something should have been a spec from the beginning.
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Re:Firefox 30.0 by cpeterso on Tuesday June 10, 2014 @09:15PM (#7876155)
That road of good intentions leads to maintenance problems like HTML quirks mode and security issues (especially when allowing invalid URLs).
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