[Mediawiki-l] Fix? Browser not always jumping to anchor in Article

[Richard Holton]

On 4/18/05, Matt England <mengland at 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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