Bug: Anchors Won't Bookmark

[Mike Harris]

If this would not be considered a bug, or has been previously reported,
my apologies. However, I seem to be unable to bookmark a page with an
anchor. For instance, MacCentral has a feature called "Road to Mac OS
X" that I enjoy following, so I set up a Favorite:

http://www.maccentral.com/features.shtml#macosx

The next time I entered into MSIE, the favorite had been truncated to:

http://www.maccentral.com/features.shtml

While I enjoy MSIE 5.0 for the Mac, I must admit that this bug reduces
its functionality slightly for me. I'd love it if you guys found
yourselves fixing this.

Mike

[Jimmy Grewal]

We don't support bookmarks to anchors because we've found that most of our
users create these bookmarks by mistake.

-Jimmy

On 5/6/00 6:47 PM, in article
mharris-0D6AAD...@msnews.microsoft.com, "Mike Harris"
<mha...@enteract.com> wrote:

--
Jimmy Grewal
Program Manager, Mac Internet Explorer 5
Microsoft Corporation
jim...@microsoft.com

[Dave Livesay]

Jimmy Grewal wrote:
>
> We don't support bookmarks to anchors because we've found that most of
> our users create these bookmarks by mistake.

That strikes me as extreme. Can't they just edit out the hash if they
find they've created it by mistake, or doesn't IE let you edit your bookmarks?

[John W. Baxter]

In article <39194F42...@telocity.com>, Dave Livesay
<dliv...@telocity.com> wrote:

Most users couldn't "just edit out the hash," no. The small fraction of
modern users which discovers Usenet probably could, so I'm not talking
about anyone who is reading this.

--John

--
John W. Baxter Port Ludlow, WA USA jwb...@scandaroon.com

[Immanuel Tranz-Mischen]

"John W. Baxter" wrote:
>
> Most users couldn't "just edit out the hash," no.

Most Netscape users could.

--
Dave Livesay (http://www.erols.com/dlivesay/)
aka Immanuel Tranz-Mischen ("Perhaps you know my brother, Otto?")

[Seth Milliken]

In article <39194F42...@telocity.com>, Dave Livesay
<dliv...@telocity.com> wrote:

> Jimmy Grewal wrote:
> >
> > We don't support bookmarks to anchors because we've found that most of
> > our users create these bookmarks by mistake.
>
> That strikes me as extreme. Can't they just edit out the hash if they
> find they've created it by mistake, or doesn't IE let you edit your bookmarks?

This is indeed a bit extreme. What's worse is that it results in
behavior that is both inconsistent and (mildly) destructive: a bookmark
to an anchor works correctly until you quit and relaunch IE, at which
point IE actually removes information from your bookmarks.

Why not give more sophisticated users the option of preserving the
anchors in our bookmarks? How about a checkbox in the Web
Browser->Advanced preference pane labelled "Respect anchors in
bookmarks" which is unchecked by default? If it is not checked, simply
ignore the anchors, don't delete them.