Featured IP, broken links.

Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 00:51:42 -0400 (AST)
From: Joey Mitchell Comeau <aw096@chebucto.ns.ca>
To: "Norman L. DeForest" <af380@chebucto.ns.ca>
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> It appears that not enough '../'s were used and the "/Policy" directory
> wasn't removed from the path obtained from the referring page.

i dislike ../'s

> 
> Perhaps, instead of "../../../" (bad) or "../../../../" (better), it
> would be safer to code the full path by using a leading "/" as in
> 
>     English
> 
> as the welcome page would (presumably) always be using the "http" URL
> and never the "file://localhost/..." one or, even safer, code the
> fully-qualified path:
>
>     English

I don't know if i understand why this isn't the method used now. I cannot
see any reason for the use of ../'s 

 
> 
> I am also wondering why the background icon and the <font ...> tag is
> used here when the only people to access the welcome page are those 
> logged in to CCN with lynx -- or do 'outsiders' also get to see the
> "Featured IP" page as well?

maybe its for those of us with graphical lynx. :P
my guess is that old habits die hard, or it was made with frontpage or the
like and they used a template with font and background allready selected.


> <body background="../../../Icons/paper.gif">

again with the ../'s!!

Joe
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