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.

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Tim Hill
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