Re: Anchors in current file...
marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 93 13:15:56 -0500
From: marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
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To: roy@mchip00.med.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
Cc: David Martland <David.Martland@brunel.ac.uk>, www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Subject: Re: Anchors in current file...
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Roy Smith writes:
> >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.
>
> Yes, we have noticed the same thing. I'm not familiar enough with
> the HTML specs to say if that's a bug or not, but it's certainly not
> the expected, or desired, behavior.
Well, it's not quite *that* simple. The original decision (and yes,
it was a decision) was to put _documents_ in the history list. Moving
around inside a document was thought to be different than moving to a
new document.
Like I said, 2.x reverses this policy. Now, the question is: I go to
document foo.html and scroll to line 58. A hypertext reference leads
to #myanch and I follow it, jumping to line 699 (which is where the
named anchor 'myanch' sits). Now my history list looks like --
foo.html [cached line 58]
--> foo.html#myanch [explicit line 699]
So then I scroll down to line 784, and then go 'back' (which jumps me
up to line 58). Now the history list is:
--> foo.html [cached line 58]
foo.html#myanch [explicit line 699, cached line 784]
NOW, if I go 'forward', should Mosaic put me on line 699 or line 784?
Hope this makes some sense,
Marc
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Marc Andreessen
Software Development Group
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu