Re:How We Got the Favicon (2017)
by samplatt on Monday August 10, 2020 @08:43PM
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Yeeesss, let's just add an extra 25 characters to our user's root directory. Oh and also add capitals and spaces to it, within a system that typically hates those.
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My totally baseless assumption is that it was a cute passive way to force developers to properly support UNC Paths of all types by making something as essential as %USERPROFILE% include spaces and intentionally break all the eight-dot-three conventions.