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Ze Slashes! ZE DO NOTHINK

2009-10-14, 6:39 PM #1

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http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/the-webs-inventor-regrets-one-small-thing/

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2009-10-14, 9:01 PM #2

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I think // is supposed to mean "next we specify the server name". If it was a single / it would mean: "the following is a full path on the current server" and a lack of a beginning / means "the following is a relative path on the current server from the currently displayed file".

So if you just did "https:." you'd jump to the same page on HTTPS. Of course with a protocol, modern OSs/browsers only support the // syntax and neither of the others, hence why it's really unnecessary.

I came to this conclusion because paths on Windows machines work the same way. \\computername\share and all that. For samba shares on linux you use smb://computername/share.

Hmm I wonder if you can use "//www.google.com/" etc syntax in HTML links?

[Edit: HA! Google Chrome at least supports it! I made a link that goes to google.com using whatever the current protocol is!]