[CS-FSLUG] Is FireFox anti-microsoft?
Don Parris
evangelinux at thefreelyproject.org
Sat Feb 5 11:11:08 CST 2005
On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 08:38:33 -0500
Frank Bax <fbax at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
> _______________________________________________
If I think of it, I'll send a copy of my start page I use at work. I
created a start page on the disk that takes me to internal and external
links. Probably, if I'm just downloading a site off the 'Net, and trying to
open it from my disk, I might run into problems. That's when I would use
[Ctrl]+o.
Don
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