The http protocol forbids sending the # character in urls to http or https
servers.

In html contexts, the # and following characters are used to scroll the
browser to the indicated location on the resulting page.

I have not been able to scroll the jsoftware.com home page to the location
of the zippy image.

Thanks,

-- 
Raul

On Fri, Dec 6, 2019 at 8:45 PM greg heil <[email protected]> wrote:

> It was in Bill Griffith's strip as
> "Symbol Minded"
> Code: 28-Sept-98
> order from:
> http://zippythepinhead.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?
>
> >BTW a # in a URL is interpreted as pure HTML, no Javascript
> interpretation required.
>
> ~greg
> http://krsnadas.org
>
> --
>
> from: 'Jim Russell' via Beta <[email protected]>
> to: [email protected]
> date: Dec 5, 2019, 5:25 PM
> subject: Re: [Jbeta] Zippy
>
> Love it!
>
> --
>
> from: 'Jim Russell' via Beta <[email protected]>
> to: [email protected]
> date: Dec 5, 2019, 5:09 PM
> subject: Re: [Jbeta] Zippy
>
> >Thank’s , Raul.  In this context, it seems to work ok, within an html
> anchor tag.  This context (Gosi’s “Hello World”) is a J web app, run under
> JHS and supplying html including a link to the zippy strip. And it works,
> but includes whatever magic the Wiki adds for a left sidebar menu. (So far
> it is still something of a mystery…)
>
> --
>
> from: J. Patrick Harrington <[email protected]>
> to: 'Jim Russell' via Beta <[email protected]>
> date: Dec 5, 2019, 5:22 PM
> subject: Re: [Jbeta] Zippy
>
> >A while back, I got the hand-colored original art of that strip from
> "Griffy". It's on my page at:
>
> http://www.astro.umd.edu/~jph/Zippy_full.jpg
>
> I use the last frame as a sticker on my laptop :-)
>
> --
>
> from: Raul Miller <[email protected]>
> to: [email protected]
> date: Dec 5, 2019, 4:58 PM
> subject: Re: [Jbeta] Zippy
>
> >No -- the part of the url after the # needs to be interpreted by the
> browser (using javascript, unless it's only used for scrolling) after the
> page is loaded.
>
> >You can open the inspector's network tab, to see what the browser is
> fetching.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
>
> from: 'Jim Russell' via Beta <[email protected]>
> to: [email protected]
> date: Dec 5, 2019, 4:53 PM
> subject: Re: [Jbeta] Zippy
>
> >So the official URL is: https://www.jsoftware.com/#/zippy <
> https://www.jsoftware.com/#/zippy> I expect that will also work. Thanks.
>
> --
>
> from: chris burke <[email protected]>
> to: Beta forum <[email protected]>
> date: Dec 5, 2019, 4:42 PM
> subject: Re: [Jbeta] Zippy
>
> Click on the J icon in the website page to get to
> https://www.jsoftware.com/#/zippy
>
> >The other links you give are not linked from the website. They are on the
> server but should not be seen in normal browsing.
>
> --
>
> from: 'Jim Russell' via Beta <[email protected]>
> to: Beta forum <[email protected]>
> date: Dec 5, 2019, 4:35 PM
> subject: Re: [Jbeta] Zippy
>
> Thanks, that updated link with your corrected URL works!
>
> --
>
> from: Raul Miller <[email protected]>
> to: Beta forum <[email protected]>
> date: Dec 5, 2019, 2:03 PM
> subject: Re: [Jbeta] Zippy
>
> >Well.. https://www.jsoftware.com/images/zippy.gif is there, but it looks
> like a transparent gif that expects a white background.
>
> >Meanwhile, https://www.jsoftware.com/zippy looks like it's expecting to
> be delivered via a wiki or something like timber/twig.
>
> So... probably broken in the last site update.
>
> FYI,
>
> --
> Raul
>
> --
>
> from: 'Jim Russell' via Beta <[email protected]>to: Beta forum
> <[email protected]>
> date: Dec 5, 2019, 1:39 PM
> subject: [Jbeta] Zippy
>
> >Working with the old Bjorn Helgason post re “Hello World” in JHS, I
> noticed that his link to the Zippy J icon failed.  I also found errors with
> the NUVOC page gethttp <https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Addons/web/gethttp>
> with test_gethttp failing also, while looking to see if the icon has
> moved.  Am I out of date?
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