On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Boris Zbarsky <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/29/12 10:53 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: >> But at that point in a URL you cannot have a path. A path starts with >> a slash after the host. > > The point is that on Windows, Gecko parses file://c:/something as > file:///c:/something > > As in, it's an exception to the general "if there are two slashes after the > "file:" then the next thing is a host rule.
Thanks, I missed that. It seems however we could have that parsing rule for all platforms without issue, no? After all, file://c:/ does not parse currently on non-Windows platforms. >> I suppose, I would hate it though for new URL(...) to depend on the >> platform. > > I'm not sure there are great solutions here. :( Yeah, I'm willing to suck it up, but I would like to explore our options before we go that route. -- http://annevankesteren.nl/
