[9528] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: bug, or "feature"?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Dilworth)
Tue Jan 2 04:30:36 1996
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 11:20:05 -0200
To: www-talk@w3.org
From: Mike Dilworth <mjd@soi.city.ac.uk>
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
At 06:00 PM 12/29/95 -0800, Shel Kaphan wrote:
>
>I've just discovered that with some popular browsers, including the
>latest from Netscape, if you do a GET on a URL with a fragment (an
>anchor, a "#something" on the end), and the server issues a redirect
>(302) so that a different document is fetched, then the browser will
>NOT seek to the anchor to the ultimately viewed document -- you end up
>staring at the beginning of the page.
>
>Do people think this is
>a) a bug
>b) a feature
>c) none of the above ?
>
>
if its not a bug, then its a pretty crappy feature, which I for one would
like to see removed !!
mike
Michael J. Dilworth Dept. Information Science
City University
London, UK.
HTTP://web.is.city.ac.uk/Home/mjd/Homepage.html
