Re: Anchor dilemma

In message <2.2.32.19960219171523.00701ef4@objarts.com>, David Ornstein writes:
>>
>>This "empty anchors" but is annoying, as it causes lots of folks
>>to write:
>>
>>	<h1><a name="target"> blah blah </h1>
>>
>>without closing the <a>, because their generator software doesn't know
>>where the end of the target is.
>>
>>Would somebody please add this to the browsercaps suite?
>>
>>http://www.objarts.com/bc/
>>
>>Dan
>
>Dan,
>        exactly what would you be testing here?

You'd be testing that a browser finds the target anchor.
For example, put a target anchor of the form

	<a name="Target"></a>

at the end of a long document, foo.html. In another document, write:

	<a href="foo.html#Target">testing</a>

Most versions of mosaic don't find #Target, cuz they throw away
empty <a></a> or something.

It's just like the bug in Netscape where it wouldn't find destination
anchors in tables, remember?

Dan

Received on Monday, 19 February 1996 15:13:26 UTC