In article <[email protected]>, Martin Bazley <[email protected]> wrote: > The following bytes were arranged on 28 Aug 2011 by Tim Hill :
> > In article <[email protected]>, Richard Porter > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 27 Aug 2011 Richard Torrens (lists) wrote: > > > > Netsurf takes H REF="www.etc to refer to a external link. > > > 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 > > a relative link. ^^^^^^^^^^ Oops, I meant 'an external'. Mea culpa. > > It was a copy of a web site so naming it by its URL > > made perfect sense. To me at the time, anyway. > Surely a relative link is precisely what you want in that context? _Exactly_ > You'd be in trouble if NetSurf decided it was an external link, as > opposed to the name of the directory! It did. At least I think it was an early NetSurf. May have been another. Was a long time ago. > Richard Torrens is also wrong - NetSurf, like Firefox, treats > href="www.etc" as a relative link, as it should do. Now. > This can cause > problems when people wrongly assume that a link starting "www" without > the "http" before it should be external - it's not, it's relative! I've > seen this particular mistake in more web pages than I care to count. I > have no idea why he thinks NetSurf and Firefox behave differently, but > I assure you, they don't. I think that the point is that at some time in the distant past some of us do remember that a RISC OS browser (NetSurf was it?) did treat the relative "www....." as if it had the external "http://"; prefix. I remember because I had to change some local directory names to avoid this. It wasn't imagined but it was ages ago. To be clear: NetSurf r12640 currently in use here certainly DOES NOT have this problem. The OP may need to upgrade. T -- Tim Hill .............................................................. www.timil.com
