[email protected] writes: > From: dan moylan <[email protected]> > Subject: [Discuss] html issue > > when i enter this string into the url bar, i arrive at the > desired amazon web page. > file:///home/moylan/msg/htm/amz.htm > > when i embed this into an html document, clicking on AMZ > gets me nowhere. what have i misunderstood? > > <li><a href="file:///home/moylan/msg/htm/amz.htm">AMZ</a>
What you are expecting is the "natural" behavior, that when you click on the link, the browser loads the specified URL. My suspicion is that you're hitting a deliberate security barrier; the browser doesn't know that you trust the page containing that <a>, and is defending you from a possibly malicious web page directing the browser to load a file that may contain information that the web page may not be supposed to be touching. Dale _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
