Re: Cannot open same URL in two formatted windows

Hi Chris,

Amaya doesn't allow users to open the same document twice to avoid editing 
conflicts. But it should be able to open two formatted views of the same 
document. I added this item in the wish list.

On Tuesday 21 February 2006 17:29, Chris Beall wrote:
> Amaya 8.8.4, Windows 98 SE
>
> Scenario 1:
>
> Open a URL, local or remote.
>
> File
>   Open in new window
>     Leave the URL unchanged (i.e. still the URL of the original window)
>       Confirm
> Result: New window is not created.  Focus returns to original window.
>
> Scenario 2:
>
> Open a URL, local or remote.
>
> File
>   Open in new window.  Copy the URL into the clipboard.
>     Change the URL to something invalid, e.g. remove the .html from the end
>       Confirm
> Result: A new window is created.  If the URL is local (e.g. C:\...) an
> empty document is created and opened; if the URL is remote, a 404 page is
> returned.
>
> Paste the URL from the clipboard into the 'Open' field in the new window.
> Press Enter.
>
> The window is refreshed, but its contents remain unchanged.  The URL that
> you pasted in remains unchanged, thus the displayed page does not match the
> displayed URL.
> Click on the Reload icon.  Nothing changes, i.e. the displayed page is not
> the one in the URL in the Open field.
>
> No matter what I did, I was unable to open the same URL in two windows.
>
> [You may wonder why on earth I would WANT to do this.  I was probing the
> "too many images" problem to see if the failure boundary was related to an
> instance of Amaya or to an instance of a Formatted window.]
>
> Chris Beall

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