Re: LONGDESC: some current problems and a proposed solution added to the wiki

At 12:44 -0700 UTC, on 2007-06-30, Bill Mason wrote:

> Sander Tekelenburg wrote:

[...]

>> Test case at <http://santek.no-ip.org/~st/tests/longdesc/>. [...]
>
> In Netscape 6.2 and 7.0 (Macintosh), the longdesc URL is a clickable
> link in the image properties window.  The link opens in the same window,
> with no other visual indicators once the page loads.

Thanks.

Are you saying Netscape ignores the fragment identifier; it doesn't scroll to
the anchor?

To be clear, where on <http://santek.no-ip.org/~st/tests/longdesc/> I say
"iCab [...] indicates the anchor" I didn't mean to imply that this has
anything to do with its longdesc implementation. iCab always indicates an
anchor when you follow a URL with a fragment identifier. It does, because the
usual UA behaviour of merely scrolling there[*] doesn't work if the anchor is
at the bottom of a page.


-- 
Sander Tekelenburg
The Web Repair Initiative: <http://webrepair.org/>

Received on Sunday, 1 July 2007 02:51:53 UTC