On 06/06/11 at 09:58am, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > From: Camaleon <noela...@gmail.com> > Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 16:48:05 +0000 (UTC) > > You mean you want the browser automatically jumps to "file://localhost/ > > home/peter/blah.html" when it cannot reach "http://localhost/home/peter/ > > blah.html"? > > Oops. An error in my question. Should have been this. > > Suppose there is a Web page containing a link anchored at either > file://localhost/home/peter/blah.html or file:///home/peter/blah.html. > Seems reasonable and straightforward for this method of opening a local > file to work as well. Does anyone have a helpful pertinent idea before > a wish report is submitted? Since the file protocol method already specifies path-based navigation, what is the benefit? You can already access the file with file:///home/peter/blah.html as you mentioned.
Also, as another poster mentioned, the file URI syntax is not firefox-specific. You'd have to have it changed at a higher level such as the W3C -- Lia
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