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[Frank Bax]

At 12:02 AM 2/5/05, Timothy R. Butler wrote:

>>Create an html file (anywhere on your disk) that contains these lines:
>>         <a href="/index.html">TEST LINK</a>
>>         <img src='/Sample.gif' width='20' height='20' border='1' />
>>You can change the links to path of any html/graphics files on the same 
>>drive as this test file.  Open this test file in IE and the image will 
>>appear and the link will work.  In Firefox the image does not appear and 
>>the link does not work
>
>         Nor should it. That isn't correct... at best, IE is just doing 
> what it always does... accepting broken code (in the case of applying 
> this to a local file system).


After sleeping on it, that's just about exactly what I was thinking while 
having breakfast.  It also occurred to me that the cdrom with "absolute" 
links would also have a problem when I pop it into a Linux system!  That 
convinced me that IE was "broken", not Firefox.


>In a way this is annoying, but I think it really is correct.


You're right.