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"about" URI Tokens

Created
2012-06-12
Last Updated
2016-09-06
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"about" URI Tokens

Registration Procedure(s)
First Come First Served
Reference
[RFC6694]
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Token Description Reference
blank The about:blank URI references a blank page. [RFC6694]
invalid The about:invalid URI references a non-existent document with a generic error condition. It can be used when a URI is necessary, but the default value shouldn't be resolveable as any type of document. [http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-values/#about-invalid][CSSWG]
srcdoc Used as the document's address of iframe srcdoc documents in HTML. [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#about:srcdoc][Ian_Hickson]
legacy-compat For use in DOCTYPEs in HTML documents when needed for compatibility with XML tools. [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#about:legacy-compat][Ian_Hickson]
html-kind The about:html-kind URI identifies the vocabulary of kind values in HTML specifications from W3C and WhatWG. [https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/embedded-content.html#identifying-a-track-kind-through-a-url][David_Singer]

Contact Information

ID Name Contact URI Last Updated
[CSSWG] CSS Working Group mailto:www-style&w3.org 2012-07-12
[David_Singer] David Singer mailto:singer&apple.com 2016-09-06
[Ian_Hickson] Ian Hickson mailto:ian&hixie.ch 2012-08-09