Modern Usage
Major computer manufacturers such as Apple have begun to deprecate APIs that take local paths as parameters, in favour of using URLs. This is because remote and local resources (via the file:// scheme) may both be represented using a URL, but may additionally provide a protocol (particularly useful for remote items) and credentials.
Read more about this topic: Uniform Resource Locator
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