Re: [whatwg/url] Review slashes after file:/// and file path normalization (#405)

Hmm. This is actually about a separate issue – the handling of `C|` style drive letters. 

Apparently, Chrome and Firefox do not handle the `C|` style drive letters according to the standard (they interpret it as an ordinary path component). 

What is interesting is that IE/Edge prior to version 18 also did not interpret `C|` as a drive letter in a lot of cases. I discovered that whilst making browsershots for this issue and for #302. 

I just checked. I have no data on e.g. `file:C|`, `file:/C|` and `file://C|`, nor `file://host/C|`, But

- `c|/dir/abc` against `file:///` gave `file:///c%7C/dir/abc`. 
- `file:///c|/dir/abc` did result in `file:///c:/dir/abc`. 

This has changed since version 18, which does interpret `c|` as a drive letter. 

As an aside, Safari fails the mentioned tests because it (sometimes? or always?) does not copy the host from the base URL when parsing host-less URLs. I suspect that this is not intentional; it seems inconsistent with the way in which it parses absolute file URLs. It does however handle the `C|` style drive letters according to the standard. 



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