474359 - Seamonkey Composer will not save relative path for hyperlink to originating page

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Composer, defect)

Description

[simon.ayesse]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5

Seamonkey Composer saves absolute path information if the hyperlink is from a page back to itself (e.g. from home.html to home.html) - this occurs even when the "Use relative path" checkbox is selected.

Discovered this issue while trying to write a standard navigation bar that would be identical for all pages; self-links failed to save relative path.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Open a web page to edit in Composer.
2.  Select or insert a text item and open the Hyperlink properties dialog box.
3.  Target the hyperlink back to the page itself (e.g. from home.html to home.html)
4.  Be sure to select the "Use relative path" checkbox.
5.  Save and close the page.
6.  Reopen the page, and open/edit the hyperlink from Step 2 above.
Actual Results:  
Absolute path to the file is saved in hyperlink.

Expected Results:  
Relative path should be saved.

This problem is difficult to work around, because even if the link is fixed by directly editing in HTML, resaving the link may cause Composer to reparse the link and convert from relative path to absolute path.

Comment 1

[:Hb]

Worksforme in version 2.0.2