Browser support for URLs beginning with double slash

Question

I\'ve recently seen a few links used without a protocol. It didn\'t seem too difficult to understand - I think it\'s a great idea and pretty intuitive.

For those of

Answer 1

If you are developing on a local machine there's possibility it will fail with src="file://host.com/filename".

In this situation you need to specify scheme explicitly: http://host.com/filename or https://host.com/filename.