In article <[email protected]>, Richard Porter <[email protected]> wrote: > On 27 Aug 2011 Richard Torrens (lists) wrote:
> > I have just determined that Firefox behaves differently to Netsurf. > > FireFox takes H REF="www.etc to be a local link. It requires the full > > H REF="http://www.etc to work properly. > > Netsurf takes H REF="www.etc to refer to a external link. > > Which is correct? > Firefox is correct because you might well have a subdirectory called > www. On the other hand www.etc in an email message will ordinarily be > an external link because a relative link is meaningless unless you > happen to be discussing html. This is all true. I renamed some directories www_thingy_tld exactly because a browser was wrongly assuming a RO dir www/thingy/tld was an relative link. It was a copy of a web site so naming it by its URL made perfect sense. To me at the time, anyway. -- Tim Hill .............................................................. www.timil.com
