Bug? anchor links with spaces

[Jllynch]

Ok internal links on a site have been driving us crazy. It is with internal anchors that have spaces in the address.

We have looked greatly into this and it appears that it is a problem between IE and firefox. If we select the link in Firefox the link will only work in firefox. If we select the link with IE the link will work with IE AND Firefox.

It appears that Firefox saves the link with %20s inserted where as IE doesn't seem to do it.

So when you mouse over a working link in IE it will appear as
TOP T-Shirts

but the non working link will appear as
TOP%20T-Shirts

For some reason IE will notlink to the bottom one above. And it all depends in which program you saved the link.


So how much do Swsoft pay for bug testing for them? $79 per half hour which they charge for support?

 

[SibProgrammer]

Looks like browser specific encoding problem. But, really there is no any reason to use spaces in the anchor names By standard the anchor name "must begin with a letter ([A-Za-z]) and may be followed by any number of letters, digits ([0-9]), hyphens ("-"), underscores ("_"), colons (":"), and periods (".")."

 

[Jllynch]

Coming form a DOS/linux background I know that spaces are to be avoided but those end users using the site don't know that. Maye it would be good if the software simply removed the spaces?

 

[SibProgrammer]

It's a good idea, but the problem is inside the WYSIWYG (FCKEditor is external tool for Sitebuilder). In the future versions it'll be upgraded, but cannot say the exact version.