Re: Anchors in current file...

Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@www3.cern.ch>

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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 93 16:37:53 +0200
From: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@www3.cern.ch>
Message-id: <9307151437.AA07847@www3.cern.ch>
To: brian@eitech.com (Brian Smithson)
Subject: Re: Anchors in current file...
Cc: neuss@igd.fhg.de, www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Reply-To: timbl@nxoc01.cern.ch
Status: RO

> Brian Smithson (brian@eitech.com) wrote
> > 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!


This is very strange behaviour.  A partial URL is an abreviation
for a full one.  No information was intended to be conveyed by
the fact that it was abbreviated! The NextStep editor will allways  
write out a link in minimised form when a file is edited, so this
rather questionable information will be lost!

Tim