On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 09:37:19AM -0900, Ken Irving wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 09:15:31AM -0800, Tom wrote:
> > I filed a wishlist bug against "links" asking for it to support 
> > about:blank (highly useful in frames pages as a default for the "body" 
> > frame).
> > 
> > Maintainer closed it as a nonstandard feature, but asked me I could 
> > point to a standard.  Do you know of any significant graphical browsers 
> > that don't support "about:blank" by returning a blank page?  I know they 
> > all handle other "about:xxx" commands differently.
> 
> He asked you to come up with a standard, so why aren't you looking
> for that?  Might be nice to come up with a list of "browsers that do"
> and "browsers that don't", but you're still going to need to point to
> an RFC to have a convincing argument.  Good on the maintainer for 
> adhering to standards and not giving in to creaping feeturitus.

How come y'all are being adversarial?  I agree with the maintainer.
I'm just curious what browsers support it :-)  Jeez, grandstanding....


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