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Posted by: Pulse Cloud
Anyone knows why this is so? Is it just the result of some oversight by the devs, was it on purpose because of some security reason, etc.?Probably a combination of both. If memory serves the url tag used to support a number of functions, including mailto for some reason. That all disappeared when the inputs were limited in the wake of The Infamous Backwards Character Incident of 2007* (Or How Not To Handle Your Inputs), and https was probably just neglected, as frankly it wasn't very popular back then. It's only in the past 2 years that https has seen use as standard.
*NB: May not have actually been 2007, nor infamous. Was definitely backwards.