268332 - afb.org - case insensitive use of @id as anchor targets

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Doug Hockin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

Page relative links on this page don't work.

http://www.afb.org/aw/AW0204all.asp

links such as the following:

http://www.afb.org/aw/AW0204all.asp#AW020402

Don't work on FireFox 0.10.1.  They work
ok in IE.

These links look ok to me, but perhaps they don't follow some standard?



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to this page: http://www.afb.org/aw/AW0204all.asp
2. Click on link titled "Reviews of Two Low-Cost Specialized Web Browsers with
Speech Output"
3.

Actual Results:  
Nothing, page does not move.

Expected Results:  
Page moves down to the spot addressed by the link.

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

> perhaps they don't follow some standard?

That's it exactly: the HTML spec for id, in this case:
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/global.html#adef-id says (with the "CS")
that it's case-sensitive, and although the page has an element with
id="aw020402" it doesn't have any id="AW020402" (and if it did have the
perfectly valid capitalized id somewhere after the lowercase id, IE would never
scroll to it).

Comment 2

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Confirming, since comment 1 pretty clearly identifies a TE bug.

Doug, you'll need to tell them their page is broken in non-IE browsers. Feel free to point them here for an explanation if they're in need of one.

Comment 3

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

INCOMPLETE due to lack of activity since the end of 2009.

If someone is willing to investigate the issues raised in this bug to determine whether they still exist, *and* work with the site in question to fix any existing issues, please feel free to re-open and assign to yourself.

Sorry for the bugspam; filter on "NO MORE PRE-2010 TE BUGS" to remove.

Comment 4

[Doug Hockin]

I've just contacted the website about the problem with violating the spec. Seems fine to resolve it this way.