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From: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
To: Dave Page <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL WWW <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Fwd: [webmaster] Extra slash in links on archives.postgresql.org
Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 15:40:11 -0400
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In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
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Dave Page wrote:
> Can someone look at this please?

I'll have a look at it.  I had noticed it but I didn't think it had any
importance.


> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Noah Misch
> Date: Sat, May 9, 2009 at 7:43 PM
> Subject: [webmaster] Extra slash in links on archives.postgresql.org
> To: [email protected]
> 
> 
> The links on the per-message pages at archives.postgresql.org have an extra
> slash.  Consider `/pgsql-hackers/2009-05/msg00425.php'.  The link to this page
> from `/pgsql-hackers/2009-05/threads.php' is:
> 
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-05/msg00425.php
> 
> But the link from `/pgsql-hackers/2009-05/msg00422.php' (previous message in the
> thread) is:
> 
> http://archives.postgresql.org//pgsql-hackers/2009-05/msg00425.php
> ----------------------------->_<-- extra slash
> 
> This interferes with Firefox showing links as visited; it treats these as
> distinct locations.  I tend to grab the head of a thread from the threads index,
> then walk down the thread by "Next by thread" links.  I used to use link
> coloring to identify messages added to a thread since I last read it.  When this
> extra slash appeared (in the last 1-3 months), this strategy no longer worked:
> Firefox regarded links in the thread index as unrelated to the links in the
> individual message pages.
> 
> Please consider changing the tool that generates these pages to render the links
> consistently across the index and message pages.
> 
> Thanks,
> nm
> 
> (I should probably use the news server instead.)


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