On 8/11/10 2:35 PM, Ray_Net wrote: > David E. Ross wrote: >> On 8/11/10 7:47 AM, Ray_Net wrote: >>> http://home.scarlet.be/~pin10521/didyouseethepicture.htm >> >> The markup >> <img src="IMAGES\pose-yoga.jpg" alt="pose-yoga.jpg"> >> has a path to the image with a back-slash (\). That makes the path >> invalid for something on a Web server. >> >> IE interprets this as a forward slash (/), but that interpretation is >> not always correct. >> > SM did not work correctly when the page is located in my ISP webserver > space. > BUT in local by the use of a webserver or directly by : > file:///C:/TEST/didyouseethepicture.htm SM see the image. > > IE see the image by file, on a local webserver and on my isp webserver > space. > > The "interpretation" of IE is always correct. > > if the "\" is replaced by "/" SM and IE works correctly in the 3 cases. > > Therefore SM miss a point.
No, you have missed at least two points. If the file is on your local PC running Windows, then file:///C:/TEST/didyouseethepicture.htm is the same as file:\C:\TEST\didyouseethepicture.htm Even SeaMonkey recognizes the \ in this case. But the URI will not work for a file on a Web server if you use \ where the proper symbol is /. When \ appears in a URI, either the user made a mistake or else it stands for something other than /. IE was programmed to "guess" that the user meant / when \ is used in a URI, which can be quite wrong if the user meant something else. SeaMonkey follows the standards by not guessing; this is also true of the other Gecko-based browsers. The processing done by IE -- including the interpretation of \ in a URI -- is definitely NOT always correct. Especially when trying to interpret user errors, IE is very often wrong. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/>. Anyone who thinks government owns a monopoly on inefficient, obstructive bureaucracy has obviously never worked for a large corporation. © 1997 by David E. Ross _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey