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[Frank Bax]

At 06:24 AM 2/5/05, Alvin Smith wrote:

>On Friday 04 February 2005 10:08 pm, Frank Bax wrote:
> > Are there any other file systems besides MS that either use drive letters
> > or do not have a single  'root' directory (MS has a root dir for each drive
> > letter)?  I ask because I thought I found a bug in FireFox:
> >          http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=213537
> > But when I searched Bugzilla, I found this one that seems the same:
> >
> > <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=257321>https://bugzilla.mozil
> >la.org/show_bug.cgi?id=257321 Now I'm wondering if the FireFox people have
> > taken an anti-microsoft stand, but are pretending not to?
>
>
>I think Mozilla is just conforming to standards.  The Internet was born on
>*nix, built on *nix, and will continue to grow and and develop further on
>*nix.  Departure from standards comes from MS and IE trying "influence" web
>development with conventions that originate from a single user OS.
>
>"Unarmed" is correct to say that "using relative links is the best
>cross-browser and cross-platform solution".


Right, I see that now.  Since html files are generated with absolute links, 
I'll need to write a script to "correct" them.

Is there a cross-platform equivalent to "autorun.inf" that works on 
Linux?  Is it possible to have Linux open default brower and present 
/index.html from a cdrom by simply inserting the disc into drive?