- From: Adam Barth <ietf@adambarth.com>
- Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 21:03:14 -0700
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
- Cc: public-iri@w3.org
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 8:56 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote: > On 6/19/11 8:10 PM, Adam Barth wrote: >> Indeed. The point is that IE, Chrome, and Safari treat \ as if it >> were / in parsing URLs whereas Firefox does not. I suspect we'll want >> the spec to say that \ should be treated like / when parsing URLs. > > As a note, Gecko treats \ as / in when parsing URIs with the scheme "file" > in builds compiled for Windows and OS2. We don't do that in any other > circumstances. Would you be interested in treating \ and / equivalently in more schemes in order to converge behavior with IE, Chrome, and Safari? Adam
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