Duane Clark wrote:
>
> Mark Anderson wrote:
>
> > Duane Clark wrote:
> >
> >> Mark Anderson wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> End users should be given the option of what to do in this scenario.
> >>> Not to interpret the link as a relative one, when logic tells me that
> >>> this would be wrong (despite the 95-99% figure thrown about here, I've
> >>> yet to see a *single* link in my years of Web surfing that uses this
> >>> broken syntax to indicate a relative link).
> >>
> >> A bug report has been filed about this "bug" on bugzilla 14
> >> different times, by 14 different people. And I will bet that the
> >> archives of these newsgroups contain more reports, such as mine, that
> >> never made it into bugzilla.
> >>
> >> Likely the reason you have never seen such link in the past
> >> is because the browser you were using handled it in the way the web page
> >> creator expected. And that is because the web page creator used one of
> >> those browsers to test his pages.
> >
> >
> > No. I didn't say that. I said I haven't seen one. That means zero. I
> > do actually look where my links are being pointed to, most of the time.
>
> Running Netscape 4.76, the link
> <A HREF="http:/fmf/wwwpages/fmf_models.html">
>
> is displayed as
> http://vhdl.org/fmf/wwwpages/fmf_models.html
>
> So there are three possibilities that I can think of. You have always used
> a different browser, or you always viewed the page source. Or you did not
> realize that the links were in fact "bad", because they looked right and
> acted right.
>
> --
> My real email is akamail.com@dclark (or something like that).
In 4.7.6 just placing mouse pointer over the: <A
HREF="http:/fmf/wwwpages/fmf_models.html">
appears as :http://vhdl.org/fmf/wwwpages/fmf_models.html window at the
bottom having the: Lock icon, offline Icon, and the Floating component Bar.
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