Best. Comment. Ever.
March 7th, 2008
I would like to draw your attention to this comment from Matt. Well done!
I’ll do my best to bring the fun back.
*** UPDATE: that’s weird…Firefox isn’t scrolling to his comment when I click that link. Probably a mistake in my theme. Oh well, just scroll down and look for Matt’s comment.
*** UPDATE 2: It is fixed. See my explanation here.
Safari doesn’t scroll either. Sometimes it does but it generally scrolls to the wrong place.
I’m a bit annoyed at that. Something in modern browsers is off so that they frequently (at least on non-trivial sites) don’t scroll to anchors correctly. I suspect it’s because the scrolling is happening long before the content layout has been finalized. I suspect CSS is a catalyst here.
Firefox does right, and so does safari: You anchors name (”…#comment-7155″) contains a “-”, which is an invalid name. Try something like “#comment7155″, it will work.
Bye, Jörg
P.S.: Found your site today - great work! Thanks a lot.
Thanks for the suggestion, but “-” is valid. It turns out my theme just never defined an ID on the receiving end of the link.