A sideways glance through foggy scope.
Sure, some people have quirks that are worse than others. I wondered if my teeth clenching at the sound of “find us on the web at www.somegreatdomain.com(backslash)product” was a touch much or if I had company on my little ‘get it right’ island. So I did what I could to find out if anyone had blogged about this phenomenon.
For those that haven’t noticed or do not really care, I am talking about people from all walks of life stating that this –> / is a backslash when they pitch a URL (or URI - I’ll save this one for another post) in a commercial or whatever other reason they may be communicating a file path to someone. The truth is that is NOT a BACKslash it leans forward not backward.
I’m not kidding I have literally had a support technician call it a backslash when referring to a file location.
Anyway, I decided to find some others that had similar thoughts about this growing craze nearly as popular as drinking coffee from a Seattle-based company. I am happy to say I am not the only one that has noticed. Whew! Am I glad to see I am not as neurotic as I feared.
Here are some of the other pages explaining this widespread inaccuracy:
http://calmerthanyouare.wordpress.com
http://howtoproperly.com/forward-slashes-backslashes/
http://www.students.bucknell.edu/mdippery/post.asp?id=76
Hope you enjoy the info.