Why was it so hard to get Safari to read my local file? File under annoying…

Well, if you’re wondering… Let’s say I am a Mac OSX user named Bob. I do my webdev work in a folder called Work that lives on my Desktop. Inside of the Work folder is a folder called Project Alpha and inside of that folder, I want to see foo.html?

Got that?:

• Bob
  • Desktop
    • Work
      • Project Alpha
        • foo.html

The result to type into Safari’s URL bar:

file:////Users/Bob/Desktop/Work/Project%20Alpha/foo.html

Of course, you could just go to the ‘Open File…’ menu item in the File menu, but isn’t this just that much more fun to be annoyed with?