On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Marc Schwartz wrote: > >-----Original Message----- > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anne York > >Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 3:52 PM > >To: Help R > >Subject: [R] mozilla and R -- again > > > > > >I noticed last week that when using mozilla (both 1.2 and 1.3) > >as the help browser in R, it exhibits the following behavior: > > > >1. assuming the browser is running go to the help -> "search > >engine and key words" > > > >2. enter a string, say "plot" > > > >3. when the "search results" are displayed, click on > >something, say "abline" > > > >4. go back to the search results using the browser "Back" button > > > >5. click on something else, eg, "arrows" > > > >Nothing happens. I get the same results with mozilla 1.2 and > >1.3 running R 1.6.2 in both RH 8.0 and Windows 2000. > > > >Seems like the links just die. I'm wondering if this is this > >simply a mozilla issue as browsers work fine with R. Or > >perhaps some of the R gurus might have some idea if mozilla > >can be configured differently to work better with R? > > > > > >Thanks, > >Anne > > > Anne kindly e-mailed me and we had an offline exchange on this prior > to her post here. I can also confirm this behavior with R 1.6.2 under > WinXP using Mozilla 1.3. > > However, if I use IE 6 SP1, this does not occur. So this would seem to > be yet another example of a Mozilla related Java engine/applet issue. > > When going back to the search results page using Mozilla, a quick > visual scan of the HTML code does not show any changes from the > initial version that worked. If you move the mouse over the links, > the mouse changes, however the link URL does not show on the Mozilla > status line, suggesting that something is at least partially blocking > the link activation in the browser.
I get similar behaviour in Netscape 7.02. There the link does show. However, after going back it is a relative URL not an absolute URL, so the browser has lost the base URL. Given this is an auto-generated page, that is not too suprising: going back to auto-generated pages often does not work (and the URL in the address box was wrong, still that of the previous page). -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
