At 4/18/2005 09:10 PM, Brion Vibber wrote:
Matt England wrote:
I'm finding that my Opera and Firefox browsers
do not always jump to the
anchor in an article be it on my private, SSL-protected MediaWiki server
or
meta.wikipedia.org. eg, when going to
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_channels#Nicknames , the browser does
not always "jump" to the Nicknames section.
Is the page not completely done?
The page was completely loaded.
Is some resource still loading?
No.
Is the
throbber still going?
No.
Is the stop button still clickable?
No.
I routinely check all these things whenever I have page trouble for
anything. The page was fully loaded. The anchor just didn't jump. I even
waited for several seconds _after_ the page fully loaded. When I went to
click on the TOC sections it *then* jumped immediately.
This happened on both my SSL-protected site and
meta.mediawiki.org (as per
above).
I suppose it's possible that it could not be a MediaWiki root cause. There
would most likely be similarities across both our sites, if so? OR, it's
simply my client machine. I'll test it other places and get back to this
thread.
I have yet to experience anchor-jump problems on any other site/app that I
use (and I've had phpBB running on my site in the same config for a
while). If anything new crops up I'll let you know.
fyi, I did restart at least one of my browsers, and the problem still happened.
I haven't yet rebooted my WinXP machine. That's a little extreme for my
tests at the moment, but I'll get to that later and see if I can duplicate.
So I take it no one has heard of this before?
-Matt