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by DavidBradbury 4398 days ago
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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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.
That road of good intentions leads to maintenance problems like HTML quirks mode and security issues (especially when allowing invalid URLs).