Re: [whatwg] URL: file URL "C|" quirk

• From: Peter Kasting <pkasting@google.com>
• Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 15:25:56 -0700
• To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
• Cc: WHATWG <whatwg@whatwg.org>
• Message-ID: <CAAHOzFBhiAoLuQD3-oQPhT0N-+2bFJ2JMkMAs0M+kRU+hAvZAw@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 5:18 AM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl> wrote:

> Both Gecko and Chromium have a quirk with "C|" and similar patterns
> (drive letter followed by |). They treat it similarly to "C:".
> However, Internet Explorer does not do this. Should we remove this
> quirk?


I searched for "file URL drive letter pipe" on Google and found a variety
of comments about programs/libraries that output URLs with a pipe instead
of a colon after a drive letter name.  It sounds like there are likely
compatibility issues connected to this quirk.

PK

Received on Monday, 8 July 2013 22:52:22 UTC