Heard on the radio too many times...
Oct. 27th, 2006 03:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
herveusNote to people writing ad copy that includes web sites:
/ is a "slash".
\ is a "backslash".
You cannot put a backslash in a URL. If you tell me to go to "double-u double-u double-u dot dumbass dot com backslash foo" to learn all about dumbass foo, and I follow your instructions, my browser will tell me that the URL is invalid. All of those slanty line thingies in a URL are slashes.
The slanty line thingies you see in Windows Explorer in the fill file names are backslashes. They have always been backslashes, and being too lazy to use the proper name for them doesn't somehow magically change them into slashes.
That is all.
/ is a "slash".
\ is a "backslash".
You cannot put a backslash in a URL. If you tell me to go to "double-u double-u double-u dot dumbass dot com backslash foo" to learn all about dumbass foo, and I follow your instructions, my browser will tell me that the URL is invalid. All of those slanty line thingies in a URL are slashes.
The slanty line thingies you see in Windows Explorer in the fill file names are backslashes. They have always been backslashes, and being too lazy to use the proper name for them doesn't somehow magically change them into slashes.
That is all.
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Date: 2006-10-27 07:57 pm (UTC);) Actually, I feel your pain - my local newspaper can't tell the difference between "than" and "then," which is theoretically a more obvious difference than the one between \ and / - which the paper would publish as "then the one."