- From: Benjamin Smedberg <benjamin@smedbergs.us>
- Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 10:48:49 -0400
- To: Alex Bishop <alexbishop@gmail.com>
- Cc: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
On 7/8/2013 8:33 PM, Alex Bishop wrote: > > > I imagine that it’s an early Netscape implementation detail that > escaped into the wild. Given that I can still remember pipes in file > URLs 15+ years later, I would not be surprised if other people rely on > this working. I am certain that we must continue to support this in Firefox in some cases (URLs passed in on the command line or via DDE). I am not sure what we'd break by removing support for it for URLs in general. Unless there is a compelling reason not to support this in general, I'd like to keep it. --BDS
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