Mozilla 0.9.6 problem

[Eyal Lebedinsky]

Justin Deutsch wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I think you will find the problem is the URL itself.
> 
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 09:09:20AM +1100, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
> <snip>
> > <dt><a href="http://freshmeat.net" target="_blank">freshmeat</a>
>                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> The target tells the browser to try and open freshmeat.net in the
> frame/window with the name "_blank" if this frame/window does not exist
> then the browser will typically open the link in a new window, in the
> same way using the middle mouse button does.
> 
> There are some special targets the following is taken straight from the
> HTML4.01 spec http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/types.html#type-frame-target.
> Older browsers did not support this, and I suspect older versions of
> Mozilla did not either.
> 
> 6.16 Frame target names
> Except for the reserved names listed below, frame target names
> (%FrameTarget; in the DTD) must begin with an alphabetic character
> (a-zA-Z). User agents should ignore all other target names.
> 
> The following target names are reserved and have special meanings.
> 
> _blank
> The user agent should load the designated document in a new, unnamed
> window.
[snip]

I do not see where the problem is. I want the link to open in a new
window, and that is what it says.

I have many similar lines in my file, all look like the above example
(but with different URL and text). The problem is that sometimes
clicking
(left button) attempts to fetch the host from one URL (the one used
just before) with the file from another URL (the one clicked now).

The "missing file" error will typically reveal that it came from a host
different from the one in the URL window.

Clicking "reload" and "Shift-Reload" fails to correct this. editting
the URL sometimes loads the correct page.

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Eyal Lebedinsky (eyal at eyal.emu.id.au) <http://samba.anu.edu.au/eyal/>