There's even a Wikipedia page for "Death to the fascist insect that preys upon the life of the people!" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_β¦!
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And of course,that link doesn't work b/c the link itself ends w/an exclamation point that (as expected) is stripped by clients @jimmy_wales
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It works if I hex-encode the ! at the end of the URL: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_β¦
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Back in the day, we saw how periods got added to URLs in email & such when the period was intended to end a sentence. #webdev
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& t/thing is:it's perfectly alright to do such:there's no prohibition against URLs ending w/periods or apparently at least some punct.e.g. !
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But this contradicts with the realities of email & other clients that need to handle URLs, as I noted back in 2014
@jimmy_wales e.g. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggsβ¦. URL 404 since ending period unlinked in numerous clients.
Found 156 examples in SCOTUS casenames
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I wonder if this punctuation at end of URLs is addressed in the HTML5 spec? Let me ask @shelleypowers @mholzschlag
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I don't know as I'm not back on top of my up-to-date game yet. Getting closer. Seems more in domain (heh) of protocols @shelleypowers
Nov 16, 2016 Β· 5:09 PM UTC
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