On Mon, 23 Apr 2012, Jochen Roderburg wrote:

> Thanks for the clarification, now I understand it completely, it is actually
> the other way round. The cut-off is done on *every* URL and the (s)ftp URLs
> (for which the http usage of the #-constructs has no real meaning) are
> "unexpected victims", because there is *no* special treatment for them. ;-)

Well, the point is probably that there is no "http usage" of fractions. They
are there and supported for ALL URLs, no matter which protocol.

There's really nothing in particular that would prevent a browser to support
fractions and sftp:// URLs too if they really wanted to.

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  / daniel.haxx.se
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