Robin Whittle wrote:
> On Win 98/2k with a freshly installed Mozilla 0.9.6 (build 2001112009):
>
> New Composer Page.
>
> Type: http://www.mozilla.org
>
> Shift-Home to select it.
>
> Control L to make it a link.
>
> By default, the selected text appears as the link location. (Nice!)
>
> Click OK.
>
> The text looks plain - with no blue or underlining. Yet the HTML source
> and the saved file does contain a link. With Normal or Preview mode,
> there is never any blue text or underline. But saving the file and
> re-opening it causes the blue text and underlining to appear.
>
> Likewise, type:
>
> blah
> blah
> blah
>
> select the second "blah" and use Control L and type in
> "http://www.mozilla.org" and again, there is no underline or blue text.
> But the link is there in the source and the saved file.
>
> Going into HTML source and back to Normal or Preview again does not fix
> it. If in HTML source mode any change is made to the file at all, then
> on return to Normal or Preview mode, then the blue text and underlinging
> appears fine. Control Z makes the blue text and underlining go away.
> The easiest workaround for this seems to be going to HTML source mode,
> inserting a space and then deleting it - then returning to Normal mode.
>
> Using the Toolbar Link button and typing in "http://www.mozilla.org"
> for Link Text and Link Location works fine. Likewise using Insert >
> Link or Control L without any text selected - and again typing in the
> Link Text and Link Location - works fine.
>
> If no-one tells me this is a bug, I will report it. I had been
> using 0.9.4 and had no such problems. I just dowloaded the most recent
> nightly build for Windows (2001112408) and it had the same problem.
> 0.9.5 (2001101117) does not have this problem.
>
> - Robin
>