Re: Anchors in current file...

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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 93 05:59:55 PDT
From: brian@eitech.com (Brian Smithson)
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In-Reply-To: David Martland <David.Martland@brunel.ac.uk>
        "Anchors in current file..." (Jul 15, 12:00pm)
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To: David Martland <David.Martland@brunel.ac.uk>, marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu
Subject: Re: Anchors in current file...
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On Jul 15, 12:00pm, David Martland wrote:
> Subject: Anchors in current file...
> I don't know whether it is a bug in Mosaic or not, but using BACK to return to
> a previous anchor does not seem to work if the anchor is in the same file.
> 
>-- End of excerpt from David Martland

I'm not sure if it's a bug or a feature :-), but if the anchor is of the
form

   <a href=#label>

then the link won't be recorded the window history and Back will not go
back to the anchor, but if it is of the form

   <a href=[regular URL stuff]#label>

then it will be added to the history list and Back will work as you had wanted
it to.  I thought this was intentional and found it to be useful!  Now I'm
wondering about those _other_ browsers...

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