Re: [whatwg] Accessing local files with JavaScript portably and securely

On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 2:54 PM, duanyao <duanyao@ustc.edu> wrote:
> 在 2017年04月15日 02:09, Domenic Denicola 写道:
>> file: URLs are part of the web, e.g. parsing such URLs when used in <a>
>> tags, just like gopher: URLs or mailto: URLs. The behavior once navigating
>> to file: URLs (or gopher: URLs, or mailto: URLs) is off the web, and outside
>> the scope of the WHATWG's work.
>
> This still doesn't explain why file: protocol CAN'T be part of the web (and
> inside the the scope of WHATWG).

Because it's a mechanism for addressing resources on a specific OS.
It's not a mechanism for addressing resources on the web.


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