InfoUrl bug

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InfoUrl bug

Post #1by rthorvald » 23.08.2007, 20:16

I just discovered a bug in the use of InfoUrls. Well, it is probably more an oversight than a bug, but nevertheless:
Let??s say i have a website with info on two planets:

1. Venus
2. Earth

Now, if the articles are long, each one gets its own page. No problem there.
But: if they are very short, it makes more sense to put both articles in the same HTML document.

The standard way of linking to an article, then, will be:
http://www.whatever.com/thepage#earth

... Which causes the browser to open the page and automatically scroll down to the relevant section.

The problem is that the SSC file treats the # symbol as a comment tag. This breaks the URL.

What we need, obviously, is an escape character for the # symbol.

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Post #2by selden » 23.08.2007, 21:16

Runar,

Usually the backslant character (\) is used to quote characters. Did you try that?

(I haven't tried it yet.)
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Post #3by rthorvald » 23.08.2007, 22:44

selden wrote:Did you try that?


Yes. It just broke the SSC file.

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