Apparently there are some quirks to named anchors in various browsers. For instance, let’s say you want to link to a midway point on another page. it would looks something like this:
Link on page one:
<a href="http://example.com#midway-point">Midway Point</a>Anchor on page 2:
<a name="midway-point"></a>This seems to work just fine in all browsers except Safari. It turns out you have to restructure the link a bit by adding a slash before the ‘#’. So the link then becomes:
<a href="http://example.com/#midway-point">Midway Point</a>
It’s not a big deal really, but it is interesting how browsers handle the non-slash version.
- Chrome: works
- IE: Redirects to the slash version by automatically inserting the slash.
- FF: Redirects to the slash version by automatically inserting the slash.
- Safari: Fails. Redirects to the page without the anchor.
Yet another example of browser differences. It’s good to know the “right” way to accommodate them though.