What's Wrong With This Page?

What's Wrong With This Page?

[John J. Boyer]

Hello,
One of the pages on my Web site works with EI but not with Lynx. Please 
tell me what the problem is with http://www.chpi.org/gbuserref.html . The 
first link on the page skips the table of contents and goes to the 
Introduction on the same page. Or rather, that's what it's supposed to do. 
Instead, it skips to "post to gnomebrl". I've tried putting the target 
link inside the header, including the header after the URL, etc. Lynx 
always behaves the same. I've used Lynx or other pages with a similar 
arrangement, and it works. What's wrong with this one?
John
 

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Re: What's Wrong With This Page?

[Cheryl Homiak]

Hi John and all.
On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, John J. Boyer wrote:

> tell me what the problem is with http://www.chpi.org/gbuserref.html k

The url at the bottom of the page when i'm on the intro link has a pound sign
before the word intro. should this be there? None of your other links that I can
see have a pound sign.

Cheryl

Re: What's Wrong With This Page?

[Cheryl Homiak]

Dave is absolutely right; the link is working fine.
II was tricked by the cursor tracking also.

Cheryl

Re: What's Wrong With This Page?

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by John J. Boyer on October 1, 2002, at 08:22]

>One of the pages on my Web site works with EI but not with Lynx. Please
>tell me what the problem is with http://www.chpi.org/gbuserref.html .

It's working fine. You're being misled by the fact that cursor tracking is
putting the braille display on the link rather than at the top of the screen.

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Re: What's Wrong With This Page?

[Mario Lang]

"John J. Boyer" <director@chpi.org> writes:

> One of the pages on my Web site works with EI but not with Lynx. Please 
> tell me what the problem is with http://www.chpi.org/gbuserref.html . The 
> first link on the page skips the table of contents and goes to the 
> Introduction on the same page. Or rather, that's what it's supposed to do. 

> Instead, it skips to "post to gnomebrl".

Oh thats easy.  It actually works the way it should.
It skips to the Introduction header, if you look closer, you'll
see that the first line of your lynx window is the introduction heading.
The reason why you say it skips to post to gnomebrl is:
post to gnomebrl is the first link after introduction heading.
So that is where lynx sets the cursor.

To fix this, you'd need to make the introduction header a link,
but this doesnt make sense, I mean, where would it go to.

Summary: Your page behaves exactly as it should, the user was the problem :)

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CYa,
  Mario

Re: What's Wrong With This Page?

[John J. Boyer]

Mario,
Thanks. That makes me feel pretty silly, but I guess it's par for the 
course.
John
On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Mario Lang wrote:

> "John J. Boyer" <director@chpi.org> writes:
> 
> > One of the pages on my Web site works with EI but not with Lynx. Please 
> > tell me what the problem is with http://www.chpi.org/gbuserref.html . The 
> > first link on the page skips the table of contents and goes to the 
> > Introduction on the same page. Or rather, that's what it's supposed to do. 
> 
> > Instead, it skips to "post to gnomebrl".
> 
> Oh thats easy.  It actually works the way it should.
> It skips to the Introduction header, if you look closer, you'll
> see that the first line of your lynx window is the introduction heading.
> The reason why you say it skips to post to gnomebrl is:
> post to gnomebrl is the first link after introduction heading.
> So that is where lynx sets the cursor.
> 
> To fix this, you'd need to make the introduction header a link,
> but this doesnt make sense, I mean, where would it go to.
> 
> Summary: Your page behaves exactly as it should, the user was the problem :)
> 
> 

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Re: What's Wrong With This Page?

[A. R. Vener]

Nothing is wrong with the page. In lynx i followd
the Introduction link  and was taken to  the introduction page. However it is
also true that lynx placed my cursor on the post  link you mentioned and
my screen reader read that link.  I had to refresh the screen
to hear the text of the introduction.

rudy

On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 08:22:44AM -0500, John J. Boyer wrote:
> Hello,
> One of the pages on my Web site works with EI but not with Lynx. Please 
> tell me what the problem is with http://www.chpi.org/gbuserref.html . The 
> first link on the page skips the table of contents and goes to the 
> Introduction on the same page. Or rather, that's what it's supposed to do. 
> Instead, it skips to "post to gnomebrl". I've tried putting the target 
> link inside the header, including the header after the URL, etc. Lynx 
> always behaves the same. I've used Lynx or other pages with a similar 
> arrangement, and it works. What's wrong with this one?
> John
>  
> 
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> http://www.chpi.org
> 825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703
> 
> 
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Re: What's Wrong With This Page?

[Lyta Alexander]

On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 08:22:44AM -0500, John J. Boyer wrote:
> Hello,
> One of the pages on my Web site works with EI but not with Lynx. Please 
> tell me what the problem is with http://www.chpi.org/gbuserref.html . The 
> first link on the page skips the table of contents and goes to the 
> Introduction on the same page. Or rather, that's what it's supposed to do. 
> Instead, it skips to "post to gnomebrl". I've tried putting the target 
> link inside the header, including the header after the URL, etc. Lynx 
> always behaves the same. I've used Lynx or other pages with a similar 
> arrangement, and it works. What's wrong with this one?
> John
>
i don't find much wrong with it
i don't think you need the </a> in this line:
<a name="intro"></a><h2 align="center">Introduction</h2>
but lynx is putting the cursor on the next link which happens to be on the
same page as the introduction
Summer