On 7/4/2013 5:18 AM, Anne van Kesteren 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?
In my testing IE does treat C| as C: _if_ the scheme is qualified, as in: file://c|/foo/bar I know that including the scheme is a slightly different test case than your original, but in case it's helpful see: http://web.lookout.net/2011/06/some-browsers-convert-pipe-to-colon-in.html thanks, Chris Weber