On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 6:23 PM, Peter Kasting <pkast...@google.com> wrote: > Given how unlikely it is that someone will have registered a scheme handler > for the one-character drive letters, the Chrome/IE behavior seems more > forgiving and more likely what the author wants, to me.
But it also forks the semantics of generic URLs, or at least when the base URL happens to be a file URL. Those kind of exceptions are not exactly ideal. In particular treating an absolute URL as a relative URL under certain circumstances seems bad. -- http://annevankesteren.nl/