Posted by dorayme on 08/23/07 00:33

In article
<NikitaTheSpider-6E16D0.18161822082007@news-server.nc.rr.com>,
Nikita the Spider <NikitaTheSpider@gmail.com> wrote:

> In article
> <doraymeRidThis-31DD4C.20155922082007@news-vip.optusnet.com.au>,
> dorayme <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
> > Safari does not happily negotiate
> >
> > http://tinyurl.com/24y5hp
> >
> > iCab is quite simply brilliant, FF is fine. I don't know about
> > IE6 and 7, Mac IE is fine too.
> >
> > I was surprised by Safari, make the window not too big and see
> > how it fails to show some of the links. At least on my machine it
> > does not with some of the links.
> >
> > Is there something wrong with my code here that Safari is picking
> > up on? I can remove the underscores, I already changed from "-"
> > to "_" in case. How robust is it it in other browsers please.
>
> Some notes...
> - I see nothing wrong with your code so Safari is misbehaving here
> AFAICT.
> - If I move the id from a TR to a TD, Safari is suddenly able to
> navigate to the correct row.
> - I'm using Safari 1.3.2 under OS 10.3.9
> - FF 1.5 seems to have trouble navigating to the exact row; the trouble
> goes away if I add this:
> table, td,th,tr { border-collapse: collapse; }
> - Adding this to the bottom of the page made debugging easier because I
> could see whether or not the browser scrolled to the correct row without
> being limited by the end of the page
> <p style='padding: 30em 1em 30em 1em;'>lksdfjg</p>
>

Thanks so much for this info. I have FF 2 and it seemed fine in
that, I did not suspect about earlier builds.

When you moved the id to td, I assume it was fine for all the
other browsers too.

I _was_ going to fiddle about and try the id in different places.
I already messed about a bit on other things and thought I better
stop!

There seems to be a bit of an instability in all of this, no?
Souns 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.

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).

[btw. A very simple rock steady alternative for the job this is
destined for would have been, instead of a table of 100 rows, 100
simple html pages, each with the info that was in each row (and
perhaps a php included index to all the pages on each page! In
fact, the job would have been finished by me already. The things
we do for a bit of elegance! Perhaps I will persist a while
longer though. At least it is instructive and somewhat
interesting.]

--
dorayme

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