On 08/07/2013 23:25, Peter Kasting wrote:
On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 5:18 AM, Anne van Kesteren <[email protected]> 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.
I have a recollection of early Netscape versions displaying local file
paths in the Location bar as something like file:///c|/windows/canyon.mid.
Performing some code archaeology at
https://mxr.mozilla.org/classic/source/cmd/winfe/fegui.cpp#2531 (note
line 2359) suggests that I was not hallucinating (there are other places
in that file where ':' and '|' are treated more or less equivalently in
file: URLs).
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.
Alex
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