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<p dir="auto">On 7 Feb 2025, at 2:39, John Cooper wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">Quinn Comendant via mailmate wrote (at 4:51 PM on Thursday, February 6, 2025):</p>
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<p dir="auto">I had this weird experience in MailMate build 6222 yesterday: I used the "Share this trip" from Airbnb to compose a new email in MailMate, and the URL displayed question marks instead of back slashes, i.e., <code style="margin: 0 0; padding: 0 0.25em; border-radius: 3px; background-color: #F7F7F7;">http:??</code> instead of <code style="margin: 0 0; padding: 0 0.25em; border-radius: 3px; background-color: #F7F7F7;">http://</code>. To be clear: the URL did contain slashes, but they were displayed incorrectly. <a href="https://send.strangecode.com/f/screen-recording-2025-02-05-at-23-30-36.mp4" style="color: #999999;">Here's a screen recording</a> showing this anomaly.</p>
<p dir="auto">Not a big deal, just thought Benny would like to see this.</p>
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<p dir="auto">That’s pretty weird. I can’t wait to hear about whatever arcane phenomenon might be causing this. I like the movie and its sound effects, too!</p>
<p dir="auto">Incidentally, these are slashes (sometimes called forward slashes): //<br>
And these are backslashes: \\</p>
<p dir="auto">It’s a very common confusion, and I’ve never understood how it got started. Before computer keyboards, forward slashes were all we had, but once there were two kinds of slashes, the old slashes somehow took on the new variety’s name for many people._______________________________________________</p>
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<p dir="auto">Blame Microsoft. ‘/‘ was the only slash on Teletypes, also known as ‘fracbar’ - fraction bar. It became the standard. DOS used ‘\’ for something and M$ called it ‘slash’. Been causing confusion ever since. Taking and existing definition and changing it to fit a M$-only world has been a hobby of M$.</p>
<p dir="auto">David</p>
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