Re: [whatwg/url] Why is the host dropped if the path contains a Windows drive letter? (#302)

Do we know what historic IE did? Much of the files behavior is trying to match IE5.5/IE6 URL parsing quirks.

By nature of the feature, and the behavior on other Chrome platforms, I feel like we can say this is a Chrome Windows-ism to support Enterprises. If IE changed behavior, it makes a compelling argument that Enterprises don’t need this and it should be “easy” to remove. If IE matches the current behavior, we can still pursue removing, but would probably need metrics in place to measure how often this happens (and potentially the host being localhost or . as special cases) to evaluate removing the Windows-specific behavior.

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