Received: from maia.hub.org (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A703B634C97 for ; Sun, 10 May 2009 07:40:34 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 97870-05 for ; Sun, 10 May 2009 07:40:33 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from yx-out-2324.google.com (yx-out-2324.google.com [74.125.44.28]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 572E66340CE for ; Sun, 10 May 2009 07:40:32 -0300 (ADT) Received: by yx-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 8so1344309yxg.73 for ; Sun, 10 May 2009 03:40:31 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.151.73.1 with SMTP id a1mr10694700ybl.203.1241952031695; Sun, 10 May 2009 03:40:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090509184343.GA5287@installs.com> References: <20090509184343.GA5287@installs.com> Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 11:40:31 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 245265dc7548853f Message-ID: <937d27e10905100340q7d4417a9k7777fd0ee5f65f3c@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Fwd: [webmaster] Extra slash in links on archives.postgresql.org From: Dave Page To: PostgreSQL WWW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=none X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200905/27 X-Sequence-Number: 17008 Can someone look at this please? ---------- 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: webmaster@postgresql.org The links on the per-message pages at archives.postgresql.org have an extra slash. =A0Consider `/pgsql-hackers/2009-05/msg00425.php'. =A0The link to th= is 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 i= n 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. =A0I tend to grab the head of a thread from the threads= index, then walk down the thread by "Next by thread" links. =A0I used to use link coloring to identify messages added to a thread since I last read it. =A0Wh= en this extra slash appeared (in the last 1-3 months), this strategy no longer work= ed: 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.) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFKBc7eVphiekB/u2YRAoLMAJ9yFvr/qA6AQC02Y8VpBrrU9E2rOQCdH4+u hzYt1XrtQIjcrOBWNRt4DTM=3D =3DJTY6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=20 Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com