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Posted by dorayme on 08/23/07 04:19
In article
<NikitaTheSpider-061E65.22545822082007@news-server.nc.rr.com>,
Nikita the Spider <NikitaTheSpider@gmail.com> wrote:
> In article
> <doraymeRidThis-AA507A.10333023082007@news-vip.optusnet.com.au>,
> dorayme <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
> > In article
> > <NikitaTheSpider-6E16D0.18161822082007@news-server.nc.rr.com>,
> > Nikita the Spider <NikitaTheSpider@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > When you moved the id to td, I assume it was fine for all the
> > other browsers too.
>
> I only tested it in Safari. Testing it in the other browsers is your
> job. =)
>
Damn, you saw through me!
> > There seems to be a bit of an instability in all of this, no?
> > Sounds like it is a complicated business for a browser to find a
> > unique id. Wonder if all this works better without a table at
> > all to confuse with rows and borders? Also if the older fashioned
> > name="" instead of or in addition to the id="" might help? Need
> > to get this business reasonably right.
>
> Try it! I don't see any reason why Safari should fail to respect an id
> on a TR. Perhaps there's a good reason backed up by a spec, perhaps it's
> a bug.
I will. But I can confirm that Safari is happy to find the td
with the id and so my other browsers are as happy. Win IE 6 seems
happy too. Thanks for this Spider.
> > There is another little issue, an important one for me, don't
> > know if you know stuff about this, when you open a browser,
> > fresh, and you type or paste or insert a bookmark with the base
> > address with #alpha_numeric, some browsers are happy and go to
> > the right place immediately while others do not (I know Mac IE
> > does not, it just ignores the appended bit but still gets the
> > page. And behaves itself in negotiating the internal links!) not
> > that this is important).
>
> You say, "some browsers are happy..." Care to narrow down the
> definition of "some browsers"? That seems important. And I don't think
> anyone will complain about you not supporting IE/Mac, unless you have an
> unusual client base.
>
Well, Safari was not happy but that was perhaps because of the
row issue. Opera was happy, iCab was, FF was. I better wait till
I say anything further.
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dorayme
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