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Re: lynx-dev Bug with multiple A HREF's sharing same NAME
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dickey |
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Re: lynx-dev Bug with multiple A HREF's sharing same NAME |
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Wed, 23 Sep 1998 05:30:15 -0400 (EDT) |
>
> I've noticed that Lynx (including 2-8-1pre1) has trouble handling <A HREF>
> tags with the same NAME attribute, as generated by LaTeX2HTML. Basically, it
> makes all the links point to the same URL, that of the first such tag. Other
> browsers handle things correctly (I've only checked Netscape and MSIE, but I
> hear from Steven Baum that others work), although I'm not sure what the HTML
> spec says the correct thing really is in this case - Lynx's behaviour,
> although annoying, seems more logical to me.
>
> Anyhow, it would be nice to make Lynx use the different URLs; apparently
> older versions did.
a sample file (or url) would help (cuts down on the time to investigate it).
> Another "problem" is that switching from rendered to source view makes Lynx
> retrieve the whole page from the distant server again; would it be possible
> for it to keep the current page around?
we've talked about caching - may work on that during the 2.8.2 development.
> Thanks,
>
> Stephen
>
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> Stephen Kitt - address@hidden - http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~steve/
> "It's kind of fun to do the impossible" -- Walt Disney
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