On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 10:16:06PM +0100, David Woolley wrote: > > When I hit "g" and tell lynx to go to "news.yahoo.com" (Yahoo's new > > There is no standard that specifies how URLs should be respresented in > user interfaces, and as this is not a valid URL, except as a relative > one *within* a site, the browser is free to take the most sensible > action. Interpreting things starting with ftp. as ftp://ftp. and things > that start news. as nntp URLs seems a perfectly sensible approach and > not a bug.
it probably wouldn't hurt to make the rules configurable (I suppose someone will followup and point that that it's already doable, e.g., with cernrules). -- Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
