Turns out the problem was Msoft's proprietary MOTW which forces local files into a protected zone and causes other mischief. Pages generated with my web editor worked but not those that I built/modified mostly by hand. It's all in (a) the headers; and (b) xhtml.
Thanks to everyone who responded, all is working now and I think I have a recipe to avoid future problems. On 06/15/2011 05:58 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >>>>>> "frankhunt" == frankhunt<[email protected]> writes: > frankhunt> Simple enough - point the file manager (on Linux and on XP) at the > frankhunt> index.html file, tell it to open and it works just fine - all the > frankhunt> browsers worked fine, navigate around just fine. That is until I > try it > frankhunt> with Internet Exploder 8 on XP. IE will not follow SOME of the > links > frankhunt> but will follow others. In the document, the links look like > frankhunt> ../../index.html when I hover the mouse over the link, it looks > like: > frankhunt> file:///D:/STAGES/DVD/index.html IE cannot figure that out > (however > frankhunt> Firefox can so I know the code is good). > > Make them absolute instead. > > Don't use<a href="../../foo"> > > Use<a href="/foo"> > -- frank hunt (L0F) R0B-ZAR1 befuddled linux admin erstwhile photographer hillsboro oregon _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
