> But the basic thing is this.  <a href="#..."> is supposed to let one go
> straight to the <a name="#..."> tag.  Currently, it doesn't--it goes
> back to the top of the paragraph containing that tag, and it is quite
> possible that the place with the tag doesn't even show up on that
> screen.

        It works like this in desktop browsers too, if there isn't enough
below the anchor on the page to allow it to scroll the anchored portion to
the top of the browser's window.

> This just doesn't seem to be the right way of handling HTML named
> anchors, even if it works for most documents because of the accident
> that in most HTML documents (I assume) the named anchors are at the
> beginning of a text.

        Lots of HTML is written poorly. We can't do much to help that,
other than try to educate people in how to architect their pages properly.


d.

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