Do you have IE tab set up? I have use that to get around these types of
issues before.
Eben King wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Dec 2006, Paul M Foster wrote:
>
>> Eben King wrote:
>>> On Mon, 25 Dec 2006, Paul M Foster wrote:
>>>
>>>> Chuck Hast wrote:
>>>>> I have been looking at some web pages, and I notice that at times
>>>>> ff does
>>>>> not display some gif files that are on one page, but does on another.
>>>>
>>>> The first uses standard URL syntax for its GIF URLs, e.g.:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.k3pgp.org/Construction%5CFrontend%5Cpreamp.gif
>>>>
>>>> The %5C translates to a backslash. So Microsoft Frontpage has
>>>> generated the URLs to have this syntax. The problem is that this is
>>>> *not* where the graphics are. They are (e.g.) here:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.k3pgp.org/Construction/Frontend/preamp.gif
>>>
>>> I put a link on my page to determine how a given browser treats \s in
>>> URLs. Go to my page at http://royalty.no-ip.org:81/ and look for the
>>> text "Does your browser convert \s in URLs to /s?" maybe halfway
>>> down. As determined, Opera does, FF doesn't. That is, if my test is
>>> accurate.
>>>
>>
>> Not sure what you mean. I'm using Firefox 2.0, and I get the "Passed!"
>> page, meaning that my browser passes through backslashes unchanged. If
>> I were using Opera (which I don't have) would that mean that it
>> *changes* the backslashes to slashes?
>
> I have two files:
>
> eben@pc:~/web$ \ls -l brows*
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 eben eben 185 Jan 13 2003 browser\test.html
>
> browser:
> total 4
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 eben eben 174 Jan 3 2003 test.html
>
> The link in the main page is to "browser\test.html". The first file
> contains the text "Your browser passes through \s unchanged" and the
> second, "Your browser changes \s to /s". Opera 8.5.1 shows "Your
> browser changes \s to /s" and Firefox 1.5.0.3 "Your browser passes
> through \s unchanged." HTH.
>
>
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