97900 - microsoft.com - Navigation problem on Microsoft website (Anchor)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect, P1)

Description

[Beat Kappert]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010801
BuildID:    2001080110

Clicking on a link that refers to a position further down in the same page does
not reposition.

Could be similar to bug #60897

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/ready/default.asp
2. click on "Worldwide Windows XP Ready PCs"
   (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/ready/default.asp#worldwide)


Actual Results:  nothing happens (did not jump to link)

Expected Results:  Take me to http://www.linuxbase.org/ :-)

Page does not contain DOCTYPE - as far as I can see.

Comment 1

[Markus Gerstel]

Confirming 2001083106 linux. No Javascript issue, instead :

<A HREF="#anchor">Link</A> works

<A NAME="#anchor"></A> used by M$ - won't work
<A NAME="anchor"></A> used by everyone else - works
I'll check if HTML 3/4 allows this statement

Comment 2

[Markus Gerstel]

The use of # in Anchor names is allowed. But the link must be ##anchor then :
<A HREF="##anchor"></A><A NAME="#anchor"></A>

Mozilla accepts ##-links and #-anchors.

But the link must always have one additional #.
( http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/links.html#h-12.2.1 )

So this is a Tech Evangelism. Don't expect this one to be fixed in the next 3800
years =)

Comment 3

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

contacted 12/8

Comment 4

[Brant Gurganus]

This page must have been redesigned, it isn't even long enough to move if a link
is clicked, not that any links mentioned are on the page.