Re: URL-Reference / "empty URL" question

Foteos Macrides <MACRIDES@sci.wfbr.edu> Wed, 14 May 1997 23:50 UTC

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Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 19:34:49 -0500
From: Foteos Macrides <MACRIDES@sci.wfbr.edu>
Subject: Re: URL-Reference / "empty URL" question
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Klaus Weide <kweide@tezcat.com> wrote:
>[...]
> 3) a rule (only imagined??) that presence or absense of a fragment
>    cannot have any other effect but positioning, for text/html documents.
>[...]

	Only imagined.  As we also discussed at length on lynx-dev, and
I presume need not reiterate here, fragments now also might point to a
MAP container, and in that case they are "insertion" instructions, not
"positioning" instructions.

				Fote

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