- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
- Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 17:25:30 +0100
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
- Cc: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote: > On 10/29/12 10:53 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: >> But at that point in a URL you cannot have a path. A path starts with >> a slash after the host. > > The point is that on Windows, Gecko parses file://c:/something as > file:///c:/something > > As in, it's an exception to the general "if there are two slashes after the > "file:" then the next thing is a host rule. Thanks, I missed that. It seems however we could have that parsing rule for all platforms without issue, no? After all, file://c:/ does not parse currently on non-Windows platforms. >> I suppose, I would hate it though for new URL(...) to depend on the >> platform. > > I'm not sure there are great solutions here. :( Yeah, I'm willing to suck it up, but I would like to explore our options before we go that route. -- http://annevankesteren.nl/
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