Re: [whatwg/url] Are drive letters always invalid? (#612)

Thank you, this is useful information. 

I think I made mistakes reading the standard, so there are mistakes in my question (I think...). 

My expectation is that three slashes followed by a `c:` _or_ a `c|` style drive letter are valid, e.g. `file:///c:` and `file:///c|` and alike. (But not zero, one or two slashes, though tolerated;  in line with the other special URLs). 

> I don't think it's worth trying too hard to disambiguate drive letters from path components that look like drive letters. There are obviously some trade-offs that need to be accepted when trying to represent both Windows and POSIX paths in a single format.

I am interested in this, mostly because it is exactly what I am trying to do... So I should try to understand your point.  
The thing is, drive letters act differently from path components when resolving URLs, so I would not know a way around it. 



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