URL highlighting

[LeaVerou]

This issue is more of a note to self, as I'd love to write this myself when I get some time.

The lang definition would go through all existing languages and replace url tokens with itself as inside. Then it would highlight data URIs (e.g. SVG in data URIs, like this), it could highlight hashes and query params and many other things.

Thoughts? Do you guys think it would be useful?

[Golmote]

This may not be easy, since data URIs can contain pretty much anything, right?

Also, this should probably be a plugin.

[LeaVerou]

Of course it wouldn’t be in Core, I was planning to have it as a language definition.

Re:data URIs, I meant the urlencoded ones (which these days can have no urlencoded characters at all, as few characters really need escaping in them)

[Golmote]

If it is as a language definition, then could it be used in combination with another language definition?
In the example you gave, with the data URI containing SVG inside CSS, how will it be possible to highlight both the CSS and the content of the data URI (as markup) if it's implemented as a language definition?

What I meant about the contents of the data URI is that it may need to be highlighted as markup (like in your example, again) or as pretty much anything else depending on the mime type used.