- From: Peter Kasting <pkasting@google.com>
- Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 15:23:40 -0700
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
- Cc: WHATWG <whatwg@whatwg.org>
On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 5:24 AM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl> wrote: > Both Chromium and Internet Explorer treat > > <a href="c:/test">...</a> > > in a file served from e.g. > file:///C:/Users/Anne%20van%20Kesteren/Desktop/file.html in a special > way. The resolved URL becomes file:///c:/test (uppercase C in > Chromium) rather than c:/test (note that c: is a valid URL scheme) as > it does in Gecko. > > Is there a good reason to preserve this quirk? Given how unlikely it is that someone will have registered a scheme handler for the one-character drive letters, the Chrome/IE behavior seems more forgiving and more likely what the author wants, to me. PK
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