PATCH:KURL

[Lubos Lunak]

On Tuesday 29 of April 2003 11:35, David Faure wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 April 2003 05:05, Dawit A. wrote:
> > On Monday 28 April 2003 20:28, David Faure wrote:
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> > > On Tuesday 29 April 2003 02:16, Dawit A. wrote:
> > > > - Due to the above change we need to make KURL consistent in how it
> > > > deals with the file protocol. The changes in both ::url and
> > > > ::prettyURL do exactly that by returning file:/// by default instead
> > > > of file:/.  This way not only are we consistent in how the file
> > > > protocol is supported, but we are also compatible Mozilla and old
> > > > Netscape (I think) which support this legacy behavior from RFC 1738.
> > >
> > > I don't think we want that. We want to  support  this format, i.e. to
> > > parse it, but we still want to show file:/ URLs by default. From a user
> > > perspective, file:/// is horrifying.
> >
> > I am curious why you think that since all the other browsers do just
> > that.
>
> That's not really an argument in my eyes, on this issue (and I'm not sure
> it's true either - at least I don't recall seeing this in IE).
> And Konqueror isn't only a browser - I don't see why all file-manager users
> should end up with file://////////////path/////////filename :)

 How about having prettyURL() return whatever looks nice and maybe is an URL 
(i.e. file:/tmp ), while having the others returning file:///tmp ? I think 
all the arguments against file:/// are basically "it doesn't look pretty", 
and prettyURL() could handle that.

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Lubos Lunak
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