On 4/18/05, Matt England mengland@mengland.net wrote:
At 4/18/2005 09:10 PM, Brion Vibber wrote:
Matt England wrote:
I'm finding that my Opera and Firefox browsers do not always jump to the anchor in an article be it on my private, SSL-protected MediaWiki server or meta.wikipedia.org. eg, when going to http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_channels#Nicknames , the browser does not always "jump" to the Nicknames section.
Is the page not completely done?
The page was completely loaded.
Is some resource still loading?
No.
Is the throbber still going?
No.
Is the stop button still clickable?
No.
I routinely check all these things whenever I have page trouble for anything. The page was fully loaded. The anchor just didn't jump. I even waited for several seconds _after_ the page fully loaded. When I went to click on the TOC sections it *then* jumped immediately.
This happened on both my SSL-protected site and meta.mediawiki.org (as per above).
I suppose it's possible that it could not be a MediaWiki root cause. There would most likely be similarities across both our sites, if so? OR, it's simply my client machine. I'll test it other places and get back to this thread.
I have yet to experience anchor-jump problems on any other site/app that I use (and I've had phpBB running on my site in the same config for a while). If anything new crops up I'll let you know.
fyi, I did restart at least one of my browsers, and the problem still happened.
I haven't yet rebooted my WinXP machine. That's a little extreme for my tests at the moment, but I'll get to that later and see if I can duplicate.
So I take it no one has heard of this before?
-Matt
I'm not sure if this is helpful, but... I think I've noticed on Firefox (and not verified on IE) that if you open a new tab or window using a link with an anchor, it does not jump to the anchor. If you follow the link without opening a new tab/window then it will jump to the anchor.
-- Rich Holton
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