[Rd] documentation search: problem with links (PR#4254)

[Marc Schwartz]

On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 15:27, David A. T. Andrews wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:
> > kvanhorn at ksvanhorn.com writes:
> >
> > > Full_Name: Kevin S. Van Horn
> > > Version: 1.7.1
> > > OS: Linux
> > > Submission from: (NULL) (12.209.149.192)
> > >
> > >
> > > I used help.start() to get the web help displayed in my browser (Mozilla 1.21,
> > > on a RedHat Linux 9.0 system).  I then clicked on "Search Engine and Keywords",
> > > and searched on "optimize".  The resulting web page had a number of links.  The
> > > first time I clicked on one these links it worked OK, but after hitting the
> > > "back" button to return to the search results page I found that clicking on the
> > > links in the result page resulted in absolutely nothing happening.
> >
> > Sounds more like a browser problem than anything we can influence.
> > Have you tried Mozilla 1.4?
> 
> The problem *is* with Mozilla, and is present even in 1.5
> (the latest release candidate) --- it also appears as a
> problem in Netscape 7.x.  I've filed a bugzilla report
> (#220082).  The problem occurs when you return (using the
> back button) to a javascript generated page containing links
> to local files (remote URLs work as expected!): the local
> links are dead.  The search pages in R fit into this very
> nicely.
> 
> D. Andrews


FWIW, this has been discussed on r-help previously. See the following
posts:

http://maths.newcastle.edu.au/~rking/R/help/03a/3261.html
http://maths.newcastle.edu.au/~rking/R/help/03a/4206.html

HTH,

Marc Schwartz