Re: Possible IE Bug? Recreated on two different machines.

From: Shenan Stanley (news_helper_at_hushmail.com)
Date: 08/03/04 

Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 16:17:06 -0500

John Smith wrote:
> I'm not sure why this happens, but when ever I log into Gmail, the
> Gmail browser starts getting the new page redirections from other IE
> windows.
>
> I have been able to recreate this on two different machines:
> Step 1:
> Open a browser and navigate to:
> http://www.riskglossary.com/articles/standard_deviation.htm. And
> leave it open.
> Step 2:
> Open a new browser and log in to Gmail.
> Step 3:
> Click on Standard Deviation or Variance on the first browser and on my
> computer these pages are opened in the Gmail browser and it doesn't
> scroll down to those sections of the page (as it really should).
>
> Good luck,
>
> GuessWho
>
> PS. only reply to the news group.

Does the same in Firefox.
Must be the use of the # in the a href.. which is where they are trying to
target something on the same page. And something pecular with GMAIL itself.

I would call this interesting, but should be reported to GMail and the owner
of the first page - not Microsoft as an IE bug - because it's not one. 

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