Paul (and anyone else who's interested), I tried the corrected links you supplied in IE6, Firefox 1.5.0.3, and Opera 9.00 Beta Build 8367. The links worked as you said in Firefox and Opera, but not in IE. Kinda weird...
Darrel On 5/10/06, Paul Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, this is totally aside and just 'FYI' so please disregard if you are not interested. > > It's been bugging me for a few weeks so I just took a look and discovered why the anchors to the FAQ haven't been working as expected. Here's an example -- Bret sent out the following link in a recent email: > http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/FAQ#concurrent-ie > > I followed the link, and like other similar links, I am brought to the *top* of the FAQ page, but not the actual intended section. (unexpected) > > I browsed the 'code' on the page and you will see the following line just above the corresponding section: > {anchor:concurrent-ie} > > --> I think the assumption here is that you would form the URL by simply adding a # in place of the 'anchor:', but this is not how this code is actually translated to HTML. > > First off, all the dashes are removed from the actual HTML. So the anchor will really be identified as "concurrentie". > Next, for some reason, the page Title is being *prefixed* to the real anchor. > > This means that the anchor name is actually: #FAQ-concurrentie > > So, to go to that section of the FAQ, you would have to follow this URL: > http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/FAQ#FAQ-concurrentie <http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/FAQ#FAQ-concurrentie> > > Using another example, another popular section that is often referenced is the "Access denied when trying to access a frame." This has the following corresponding 'code': {anchor:access-denied} > > Therefore, to access this URL you would use the following: > http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/FAQ#FAQ-accessdenied > > I thought some of you might be interested to know this. > > Cheers. Paul. > (no, the *other* Paul. ;)) _______________________________________________ Wtr-general mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-general
