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List:       ntp-webdudes
Subject:    Re: [ntp:webdudes] HTML errors
From:       "David L. Mills" <mills () udel ! edu>
Date:       2002-12-02 16:07:21
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Steve,

Explorer requires the #link or comes a page-not-found message. Netscape
ignores the #link. You get these browsers to agree and I'm glad to fix
it.

Dave

Steve Kostecke wrote:
> 
> Here's a report that I received about HTML errors on some of the NTP
> pages. Who maintains the pages in
> http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/ntp_spool/html?
> 
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> Subject: Invalid anchors on NTP pages
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> There are quite a number of invalid anchors on the NTP pages. This causes
> some browsers (Mozilla) to not scroll to the anchor when clicking on a link.
> 
> Here is an example. This error appears to recur throughout the entire NTP
> site - it is not limited to just this page. On this page:
> 
> http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/ntp_spool/html/refclock.html
> 
> Look at the anchors for the table of contents items. For example:
> 
> <h4 id="#perf">
> 
> There should not be a "#" in the anchor.
> 
> The # is a symantec element of the link to the anchor:
> 
> <a href="#clock">
> 
> But it should not be included in the anchor itself, which should be:
> 
> <h4 id="perf">
> 
> Some browsers may work OK with this, but it is incorrect.
> 
> I reported this as a "bug" to Mozilla.org, and they pointed-out that the
> problem was in the web page itself.
> 
> Here is the respnse I got from them:
> 
> cplyon@hotmail.com changed:
> 
>             What    |Removed                     |Added
> - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                   CC|                            |cplyon@hotmail.com
>               Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
>           Resolution|                            |INVALID
> 
> - ------- Additional Comments From cplyon@hotmail.com  2002-11-30 14:16 -------
> The page incorrectly defines its anchors:
> 
> The code <a href="#app> looks for the anchor "app".
> 
> Therefore:
> <h4 id="#app"> should be <h4 id="app">
> 
> Not a Mozilla bug, since this page uses an illegal anchor name
> 
>  >From the HTML spec (http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/types.html#type-name):
> ID and NAME tokens must begin with a letter ([A-Za-z]) and may be followed by
> any number of letters, digits ([0-9]), hyphens ("-"), underscores ("_"), colons
> (":"), and periods (".").
> 
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