# Link Seeing Problem

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-seeing-problem/118913>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [July 14, 2002, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-seeing-problem/118913 "2002-07-14T12:56:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2002, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-seeing-problem/118913/1 "2002-07-14T12:56:05Z")

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This concerns [**Cessandra** ’s wedding dress thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=125328), specifically, the OP.

I can’t see the picture linked to in the OP, darn it! I don’t have any useful advice for her thread, but I want to see the pretty dress. What I see is “This is the dress:” followed by a blank line. I’m running Windows 98, and both Netscape 7 and IE 6 give me the same thing.

I looked at the source code and the relevant tag was this:

\<!–ref=“[http://www.threeweb.ad.jp/~mciccone/dress/pronovias01.jpg](http://www.threeweb.ad.jp/~mciccone/dress/pronovias01.jpg)” target="\_blank" [http://www.threeweb.ad.jp/~mciccone...pronovias01.jpg](http://www.threeweb.ad.jp/~mciccone...pronovias01.jpg) --\>

It looks like a comment to me. What’s it doing in a comment, and why can so many others see the link and not me? Now, additionally, I think I copied and pasted the image URL itself correctly:

[http://www.threeweb.ad.jp/~mciccone/dress/pronovias01.jpg](http://www.threeweb.ad.jp/~mciccone/dress/pronovias01.jpg)

When I tried to access this picture, I got errors, and I couldn’t see anything. Not 404 errors, but errors like there’s something wrong with the file itself. This part is not really an ATMB question, but since I noticed it too, I just thought I’d throw it out.

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**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2002, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-seeing-problem/118913/2 "2002-07-14T22:01:52Z")

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The link works for me. icab on Macintosh.

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2002, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-seeing-problem/118913/3 "2002-07-15T21:40:00Z")

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I just took a look at the source code of that thread, and I see a perfectly normal \<a href= et cetera. Is it possible that the html file got corrupted somehow, in the process of getting to you?

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**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2002, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-seeing-problem/118913/4 "2002-07-15T23:16:37Z")

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Yeah it must have. Thanks you two. I guess the problem’s something on my end.