{"id":13228,"date":"2016-01-08T17:32:43","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T22:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=13228"},"modified":"2016-01-08T17:32:43","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T22:32:43","slug":"apple-mail-ignores-named-anchors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/08\/apple-mail-ignores-named-anchors\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Mail Ignores Named Anchors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/16174\">Adam C. Engst<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/16174\">\n<p>I now have direct confirmation that Apple is aware that the versions of Mail in both OS X 10.11 El Capitan and iOS 9 do not properly honor navigating to standard HTML named anchor tags.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Frankly, I find this bug extremely distressing, not because it&rsquo;s all that significant &mdash; you can always just scroll down in the TidBITS issue &mdash; but because named anchors were described in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/History\/19921103-hypertext\/hypertext\/WWW\/MarkUp\/Tags.html\">the 1992 CERN document<\/a> (presumably by Tim Berners-Lee) that was the very first public documentation of HTML. It boggles the mind that Apple&rsquo;s engineers could bungle such a simple behavior that sits at the very core of HTML, and fail to fix it in the two minor updates to El Capitan and iOS 9 released so far.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam C. Engst: I now have direct confirmation that Apple is aware that the versions of Mail in both OS X 10.11 El Capitan and iOS 9 do not properly honor navigating to standard HTML named anchor tags. [&#8230;] Frankly, I find this bug extremely distressing, not because it&rsquo;s all that significant &mdash; you can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[126,1143,131,31,1137,30,903,597],"class_list":["post-13228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-applemail","tag-apple-software-quality","tag-bug","tag-ios","tag-ios-9","tag-mac","tag-mac-os-x-10-10-yosemite","tag-mobilemail"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13229,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13228\/revisions\/13229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}