Re: [whatwg/url] Changes to file URL path normalization (#544)

Right, the translation from URLs to files on the filesystem is not specified (certainly not by Fetch), and not really part of the web. It's browser- and OS-specific. I'm not sure how to give compatibility guidance about that subject.

> I guess a different question is, would the web ever have a place where it expects to generate a URL with more than 2 leading / for a file.

Yes, for example if someone did `<a href="file://////foo">`, or `new URL("file://///foo")`, those would all generate such URLs.

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