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Search result links don't work properly on Netscape 1.12 for MacOS

Open jonthysell opened this issue 3 years ago • 6 comments

I can browse the site fine, and start a search. However, in the search results, every link has weird extra single quotes, i.e.:

http://frogfind.com/'/read.php?a=http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com'

The links look fine once I get into a real page, say on Wikipedia.

jonthysell avatar May 05 '21 17:05 jonthysell

Correction: The links to other pages on a page look fine, links to the images at the top of the page also have the weird extra quotes which break the links.

jonthysell avatar May 05 '21 17:05 jonthysell

20210505_101057

jonthysell avatar May 05 '21 17:05 jonthysell

If possible, could you provide a "view source" or Inspect Element view so we can eliminate the possibility of the browser being at fault? Thanks.

xFuney avatar May 09 '21 20:05 xFuney

Looking at the source, it appears Netscape 1.12 doesn't like when attribute values use single quotes instead of double quotes.

This doesn't work: <a href='read.php'>text</a>.

But this does: <a href="read.php">text</a>.

So while the article content uses double quotes for all HTML attribute values, the HTML for the search results and the extracted image links at the top of the page use single quotes.

While I understand that technically the HTML 2.0 spec allows for single quotes, unless there's some browser out there that only accepts single quotes, my guess is it would only help to standardize the whole page with double quotes.

jonthysell avatar May 11 '21 04:05 jonthysell

That does sound like it could be causing the issue. I think there's plans to mitigate this eventually. Just keep tabs on the pull requests or, if you wish, make the changes yourself and submit a pull request.

xFuney avatar May 15 '21 19:05 xFuney

A fix appears to be posted: #10

lukecyca avatar Mar 11 '23 21:03 lukecyca