On 10 Mar 2015, at 17:31, Peter Uhnák <i.uhnak@gmail.com> wrote:
/Users/sven/Desktop/foo.txt file:///Users/sven/Desktop/foo.txt
But what about native (OS platform) conventions ?
I don't want to see Windows backslashes, but Windows user might disagree.
file:// is URI scheme and as per RFC ( http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1630 ) there is always forward slash; even on Windows. After all as we've found with git, using backslashes on Windows doesn't even work... so maybe use file:// as universal scheme?
I don't agree, because *IT IS NOT A FILE URL*, *IT IS MORE* It is a thing that looks like an abstract file of something that looks like a file system, not necessarily a regular disk based one, this has to be reflected in its general print representation, else you are lying/confusing the user