fixing internal strictEncodeURIComponent() to work in Firefox 3.6 - closes #91

Author: rodneyrehm

README.md

@@ -209,6 +209,7 @@ URI.js is published under the [MIT license](http://www.opensource.org/licenses/m
 
 ### `[dev-version]` (master branch) ###
 
+* fixing internal `strictEncodeURIComponent()` to work in Firefox 3.6 - ([Issue #91](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/91))
 * fixing [`.normalizePath()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#normalize-path) to properly resolve `/.//` to `/` - ([Issue #97](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/97))
 * fixing [`path()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#accessors-pathname) to return empty string if there is no path - ([Issue #82](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/82))
 * fixing crashing of `URI.decodeQuery()` on malformed input - now returns original undecoded data - ([Issue #87](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/87), [Issue #92](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/92))

src/URI.js

@@ -223,11 +223,17 @@ URI.getDomAttribute = function(node) {
 
     return URI.domAttributes[nodeName];
 };
+
+function escapeForDumbFirefox36(value) {
+    // https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/91
+    return escape(value);
+}
+
 // encoding / decoding according to RFC3986
 function strictEncodeURIComponent(string) {
     // see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/encodeURIComponent
     return encodeURIComponent(string)
-        .replace(/[!'()*]/g, escape)
+        .replace(/[!'()*]/g, escapeForDumbFirefox36)
         .replace(/\*/g, "%2A");
 }
 URI.encode = strictEncodeURIComponent;