[whatwg] IE/Win treats backslashes in path as forward slashes
Gervase Markham
gerv at mozilla.org
Wed Apr 11 07:13:09 PDT 2007
Geoffrey Sneddon wrote:
> Looking through the spec again, there is nothing about backslashes in
> URI's path being treated as a forward slash, behaviour needed for
> compatibility for quite a few websites.
I would be rather surprised if that were true, given that Firefox
doesn't do it and I've never come across a website which broke for that
reason. But maybe I live a sheltered life.
Gerv
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