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FF anchor issue

Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 4:21 pm
by RobertGonzalez
Has anyone else experienced this...

I get an email from devnetwork saying that someone has replied to a thread. I click the link and the page loads. Except the page does not take me to the anchor that is in the link, it leaves me way up the page. Here is the url (with anchor) I tested:
viewtopic.php?p=382505#382505

This is what I got when the page loaded
Careful, that image is about 120K.

Has anyone else seen that happen before? FYI, if I refresh the page, it goes to where it is supposed to.

Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 4:27 pm
by feyd
That is the position Firefox calculated the anchor to be when it first loaded the page code (without knowing the size of the graphics referenced.)

Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 5:19 pm
by RobertGonzalez
That seems like weird behavior, but I take your word for it.

Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 5:37 pm
by Luke
I've noticed this too. So it's a firefox bug? or is it a feature? :lol:

Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 6:25 pm
by AKA Panama Jack
The browser should take you right to the anchor point once the page, ALL images, CSS, JS, etc. files have been loaded. The browser shouldn't take you to the anchor until everything on the page has finished loading.

If the page has finished loading all elements and it doesn't take you to the proper anchor then it definitely is a BUG in the browser. If the browser takes you to the anchor point before all page elements have finished loading then that is a BUG in the browser as well.