Re: LYNX-DEV Spaces in <A HREF="#foo bar"> are deleted

[Jim Spath (Webmaster Jim)]

On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, Bela Lubkin wrote:
> > On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, Andrew Haylett wrote:
> > > If I have
> > >     <A HREF="#foo bar">link</A>
> > > in my document, and
> > >     <A NAME="foo bar">target</A>
> Should Lynx also be collapsing the spaces in the NAME anchor?  These two
> references would have matched if the spaces were collapsed out of
> both...

I tried this on the latest autconfig+bugfixes version:
lynx "http://host/~user/page.html#The End"

Lynx goes to the invalid url fragment anyway!  Per the CHANGES file:
12-26-96
* Mods of HREF resolving to be more consistent with the latest IETF draft
  (http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/uri/draft-fielding-url-syntax-02.txt).
  Most importantly, lone fragments (HREF="#fragment") are resolved versus
  the current document's URL, and no longer versus the BASE, if present.
  There are a few things in the draft which are at odds with what virtually
  all currently deployed browsers do, and so I stuck with the "deployed"
  behavior.  Try the tests in  http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/url/  to
  see where Lynx still differs from the draft. - FM


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