From kde-core-devel  Tue Nov 16 20:34:40 2004
From: David Faure <faure () kde ! org>
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 20:34:40 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: file:///
Message-Id: <200411162134.40863.faure () kde ! org>
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On Monday 15 November 2004 08:42, Andras Mantia wrote:
> On Sunday 14 November 2004 23:12, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > We will accept file:/abspath but wherever we display it as a URL, we
> > use file:///abspath as per the RFC.
> 
> I know that this can be fixed in the application, but it's rather funny
> now to see in Krusader's location bar things like "///".

Well we're not used to it, but it's the standard, apparently.
(Mozilla shows the same btw).

I think apps with a location bar will have to show the path, and not a URL, for local files.

-- 
David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).