David E. Ross wrote:
Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 (x64)
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.26.1
I am looking at the Web page at
<http://www.bbc.com/news/world/us_and_canada>. The lead article is
"Ex-NFL player guilty of murder".
Same here.
Lower on that page is "Anthony Zurcher >" (yes, with >). That and
the right-hand sidebar all have the link
<http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-32313713>, the link to the
Pearl Harbor article.
I followed your "US & Canada" link and searched for "Zurcher" on the
page. I see two links, one with the display text "Anthony Zurcher >"
which points to
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/correspondents/anthonyzurcher/> and one just
below under the blurb for the Marco Rubio story, which also points to
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/correspondents/anthonyzurcher/>.
I can find no link that displays any text containing "Zurcher" and
points to the Pearl Harbor article at
<http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-32313713>.
On examining the source code, I see the string "32313713" only twice.
Here's the relevant excerpt (minus padding spaces):
<div class="pigeon-item faux-block-link"
data-entityid="container-top-stories#5">
<a href="/news/world-us-canada-32313713" class="title-link">
<h3 class="title-link__title">
<span class="title-link__title-text">US to exhume Pearl Harbor
remains</span></h3></a>
<a href="/news/world-us-canada-32313713"
class="faux-block-link__overlay-link" tabindex="-1"
aria-hidden="true">Full article US to exhume Pearl Harbor remains</a>
That is a single element; as I move my cursor in the area, the link
in my status bar does not flicker. The same link appears in the blank
area to the left of the image of the "Rubio for President" campaign
button,
On my screen, the campaign button and the story title and blurb both
point to <http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-32296724>. The Zurcher
link reappears if I mouse down some more to his name. The Pearl Harbor
link appears only if I mouse over the Pearl Harbor story title and
blurb. Honest.
for the title of the following "Features" section, under the captions
of the images in the "Features" section, and elsewhere on that page.
You may not realize it, but the contents of the status bar don't change
if you mouse over a blank area that doesn't provide new status text.
Maybe it should; that's a question for the developers. But since
"Features & Analysis" is not a link, it doesn't affect the status-bar text.
The page has 27 HTML errors and 106 CSS errors. When I read the
descriptions of the HTML errors, I see that some of them are quite
serious. I repeat: This is NOT a SeaMonkey problem. This is a problem
with the BBC Web site.
That may well be. But if the source code only links to that page twice,
how on earth can you be seeing it so many different places? Can't be the
Beeb's fault.
--
War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
--
Paul B. Gallagher
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