• To: bryan <bry@i...>
• Subject: Re: OT: data url scheme
• From: Jim Ancona <jim@a...>
• Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 09:53:02 -0400
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <004601c351e3$ea775120$2001a8c0@bryans>
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bryan wrote:
> Okay it seems that Mozilla implements the data url scheme,
> ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2397.txt I'm somewhat unclear on this
> though, it seems to me that the implementation is wrong from reading the
> text of the rfc, if I have the data url  data:,A%20brief%20note as shown
> in the rfc I suppose that when a link with that url is clicked on that a
> new virtual document should be created and the value of the data
> fragment is written to this document.body 
> 
> Instead Mozilla opens up a dialoque box asking me if I want to open this
> file using another file. Tried to choose to open it with notepad but it
> didn't seem to work. 

When I clicked on the URL in your message above, Mozilla 1.4 (Win32) 
opened up a page with the text "A brief note" displayed. Perhaps you ran 
into a bug that's been fixed?

Jim

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