Mark Anderson wrote:
> Duane Clark wrote:
>
>> Mark Anderson wrote:
>>
>>
>>> End users should be given the option of what to do in this scenario.
>>> Not to interpret the link as a relative one, when logic tells me that
>>> this would be wrong (despite the 95-99% figure thrown about here, I've
>>> yet to see a *single* link in my years of Web surfing that uses this
>>> broken syntax to indicate a relative link).
>>
>> A bug report has been filed about this "bug" on bugzilla 14
>> different times, by 14 different people. And I will bet that the
>> archives of these newsgroups contain more reports, such as mine, that
>> never made it into bugzilla.
>>
>> Likely the reason you have never seen such link in the past
>> is because the browser you were using handled it in the way the web page
>> creator expected. And that is because the web page creator used one of
>> those browsers to test his pages.
>
>
> No. I didn't say that. I said I haven't seen one. That means zero. I
> do actually look where my links are being pointed to, most of the time.
Running Netscape 4.76, the link
<A HREF="http:/fmf/wwwpages/fmf_models.html">
is displayed as
http://vhdl.org/fmf/wwwpages/fmf_models.html
So there are three possibilities that I can think of. You have always used
a different browser, or you always viewed the page source. Or you did not
realize that the links were in fact "bad", because they looked right and
acted right.
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