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List:       ntp-bugs
Subject:    Re: [ntp:bugs] Invalid anchor ids in NTP documentation
From:       "David L. Mills" <mills () udel ! edu>
Date:       2003-03-22 16:26:47
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david,

The anchor selection is valid for Internet Explorer. The anchor you
suggest does not work. Obviously, this is an incompatible browser issue.
I'm not going to worry about it.

Dave

david@djwhome.demon.co.uk wrote:
> 
> The anchors for fragment links in the NTP documentation home page are
> given like this:
> 
>         <h4 DEFANGED_id="#intro">Introduction</h4>
> 
> I think that '#' is not a valid character in an id attribute, but even if
> it is, it is not a valid character in an anchor.  The anchor should be
> id="intro" (and probably name="intro", as well, for backwards compatibility).
> 
> The # in the href is a delimiter and not part of the anchor name.
> 
> It is quite possible that your browser did silent error recovery on this,
> which is why it may not have been obvious, but it is wrong, and some
> browsers fail to find the fragment.
> 
> >               Lynx 2.8.3rel.1 (23 Apr 2000) ([1]latest release)
> >
> >File that you are currently viewing
> >
> >   Linkname: The Network Time Protocol (NTP) Distribution
> >        URL: http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/index.html
> >    Charset: iso-8859-1 (assumed)
> >     Server: Apache/1.3.26
> >       Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 10:11:52 GMT
> >   Last Mod: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 21:27:28 GMT
> >   Owner(s): None
> >       size: 239 lines
> >       mode: normal
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