Re: [LUG] Mozilla and backslashes in IMG tags

[Andrew Rogers <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alex Charrett wrote:

> Quoting Andrew Rogers:
>
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> > <img src="img\dc25open.jpg" ALIGN=CENTER>
> >    
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> Using MSIE, you can use a whole url with backslashes as opposed to forward 
> slashes (http:\\www.dclug.org.uk\linux_adm\archive.html) and the browser will 
> translate the backslashes to forward slashes.
>
> Becuse IE does this translation, people can generate pages that work in IE but 
> in any other browser will result in broken images/links/etc.
>
> Alex.
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The MS webpage creator tools ( I'm not familiar with them to name them) 
are likely to use backslashes to tie people to IE. Presumably these 
backslashes are not HTML compliant and so Mozilla isn't going to support 
them.

Suggestion for search engines (Google for example); should check webpage 
content for these backslashes and indicate these in the search results, 
maybe as an option.

Regards
Andrew



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