24 Dec
2008
24 Dec
'08
11:59 a.m.
In article <f4eb766f0812241129j7ea181b1g800742f98b598fa8 at mail.gmail.com>,
"Ethan Dicks" <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> writes:
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Tom Peters
<tpeters at mixcom.com> wrote:
Its standard, its been in the URL spec since the beginning. It works
across documents, too, not just within the same document. The "#anchor"
syntax is part of the URL syntax, its not some magic that only works
within a document.
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At 10:18 AM 12/24/2008 +0000, you wrote:
That form certainly only works within the same document (I've used it
plenty), but I'm surprised to hear the suggestion that it might not be
standard. I've been using it since 1995 and Netscape 0.8. I check my
web pages against modernish standards with the W3C checker and I get
no complaints about it. >
> I wish that I knew a good way in HTML to express offsets from beginning
> of a document.
I also use the short form of that, usually works:
<a href="#position">
- I don't think it's standard
- Only works for jump within the same document (page)