[whatwg] IE/Win treats backslashes in path as forward slashes

Thu Apr 12 02:02:00 PDT 2007

On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:43:55 +0200, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke at gmx.de>  
wrote:
> Maciej Stachowiak schrieb:
>> ...
>> Besides the backslash thing, there are a number of URI processing rules  
>> that browsers must follow for web compatibility which are either not  
>> required by or directly contradictory to the URI RFCs. Documenting  
>> these and fixing the relevant RFCs would be a valuable goal, but  
>> possibly beyond the scope of WHATWG.
>> ...
>
> Interesting. Details please. In doubt, on the URI mailing list  
> (<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/uri/>).

See this thread from last month for instance:

   http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2007-March/thread.html#10088

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Anne van Kesteren
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