Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 12/18/05 17:14

"Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@centralva.net> wrote:

> '..' = means go up ONE folder not TWO
> '.' = means the current folder
> '../../' = means go up TWO folders

Except that those notations imply string manipulation of URLs as strings,
with no reference to any "folder", or any file system for that matter.
Instead of "folder", read "hierarchic part" (of URL, with "/" as the
separator between parts). Whether such parts get mapped to a folder or
directory structure is coincidental and completely invisible to a web
browser.

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