- From: Patrick Dark <whatwg.at.whatwg.org@patrick.dark.name>
- Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2017 13:50:12 -0500
- To: David Kendal <me@dpk.io>
- Cc: "whatwg@whatwg.org" <whatwg@whatwg.org>
David Kendal 於 4/11/2017 11:46 AM 寫道: > On 11 Apr 2017, at 17:01, Domenic Denicola <d@domenic.me> wrote: > >> Bingo. This mailing list is for developing technology for the world >> wide web, not for peoples' local computers. > The World Wide Web includes peoples' own computers. file:// is a URI > scheme for exactly that reason. Every browser since WorldWideWeb.app > for the NeXT has supported it, and every browser will support it > forever, I hope. (Until it gets the <ISINDEX> treatment, I suppose, > since the current generation of web standards writers seem to regard > the idea of platform stability with extreme contempt.) > > You cannot escape this simply by redefining what you consider 'the web' > to be. > > (file:// is even 'world wide', to some extent. On computers with AFS > installed, all URIs beginning with file:///afs/ will always resolve to > the exact same files.) The "world wide web" is the user-facing portion of the Internet. Files on a CD or USB drive are not part of that.
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