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Re:Berners-Lee 'Sorry' for Slashes (2009) by imglorp on Thursday July 30, 2020 @07:11AM (#23996795)
My only hardship with this is about half the population doesn't know the difference between a slash and a backslash, which is probably not their fault because they wouldn't have encountered them outside of typesetting or computing. Which is fine until you hear the TV person above do it wrong. Luckily most browsers figure it out.

I like to tell people slash is the one you put in a date.

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Re:Berners-Lee 'Sorry' for Slashes (2009) by coldpie on Thursday July 30, 2020 @08:22AM (#23997249)
The only place a non-programmer user would encounter a backslash is in Windows (nee DOS) file paths, right? Yet another thing Microsoft has made worse in the world ;)
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Re:Berners-Lee 'Sorry' for Slashes (2009) by boring_twenties on Friday July 31, 2020 @03:31AM (#24006521)
Can we talk about gboard, Google's default keyboard for Android for a moment?

On my phone at least, the backslash has an clearly and easily accessible shortcut (long press 'w'). Meanwhile, to enter a forward slash, one has to not only tap into the special symbols page, but actually tap again into the SECOND PAGE of that.

Does anyone have any insight as to just what these galaxy brains at Google are thinking?

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