"Henno Buschmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Hallo,
>
> Anonymous wrote:
>
> > Very often backslashes get incorporated
> > into URLs on many websites, causing links
> > to work in Internet Explorer, but to fail
> > in mozilla.
>
> Its bad that it works on IE.
>
>
> > I know that backslashes may not be an
> > officially accepted standard. But why
> > not make mozilla automatically convert
> > backslashes to forward slashes when parsing
> > URLs? This way more web sites will work
> > with mozilla and more users will be happy.
>
> And this way more Webmasters doesn't care about there sites. No, thats
> the wrong way. If it doesn't work on Mozilla you will change it but if
> it works on Mozilla you will say "doesn't matter". And than come
> somebody with an browser you never expect and the link won't work...
>
> But i shouldn't do like it was my decision, but its my opinion.
>
> regards,
> --
> Henno Buschmann * [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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> return 0; // No error occurred
>
Now I've got another take on this. I use basically the same directory
structure on my computer as on my web sites. This way when I preview a page
locally (then upload to the web), all I have to do is put in the web address
prefex in front of my c: drive's path. IE, of course, converts the slashes
and the web site is loaded correctly. I don't see this as a give in to
sloppy programming, just a convenience.
jy
