[CS-FSLUG] Is FireFox anti-microsoft?
Frank Bax
fbax at sympatico.ca
Sat Feb 5 07:38:33 CST 2005
At 12:02 AM 2/5/05, Timothy R. Butler wrote:
>>Create an html file (anywhere on your disk) that contains these lines:
>> <a href="/index.html">TEST LINK</a>
>> <img src='/Sample.gif' width='20' height='20' border='1' />
>>You can change the links to path of any html/graphics files on the same
>>drive as this test file. Open this test file in IE and the image will
>>appear and the link will work. In Firefox the image does not appear and
>>the link does not work
>
> Nor should it. That isn't correct... at best, IE is just doing
> what it always does... accepting broken code (in the case of applying
> this to a local file system).
After sleeping on it, that's just about exactly what I was thinking while
having breakfast. It also occurred to me that the cdrom with "absolute"
links would also have a problem when I pop it into a Linux system! That
convinced me that IE was "broken", not Firefox.
>In a way this is annoying, but I think it really is correct.
You're right.
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