Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. wrote:
>
> Duane Clark wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> --
>> My real email is akamail.com@dclark (or something like that).
>
>
> In 4.7.6 just placing mouse pointer over the: <A
>HREF="http:/fmf/wwwpages/fmf_models.html">
> appears as :http://vhdl.org/fmf/wwwpages/fmf_models.html window at the
> bottom having the: Lock icon, offline Icon, and the Floating component Bar.
Sorry I wasn't clear. By "displayed", I meant in the status bar, as you
point out. So someone using Netscape has no way of knowing whether they
are looking at a "bad" link, because it appears correct. The only way
with Netscape to determine that this particular kind of link is "bad" is
to view the page source, as far as I can see.
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