# My signature links

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-signature-links/87053
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [October 12, 2001, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-signature-links/87053 "2001-10-12T14:55:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author: ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2001, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-signature-links/87053/1 "2001-10-12T14:55:12Z")

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I’ve placed a sample of my darling daughter’s pix in one of the links in my sig. (Also, first-hand photos of the Pentagon’s damage.)

But I’ve been getting feedback from some people I give the links to. They say the pictures are “broken”, or just don’t appear.

So I’d like to ask SDMBers that read this to check out my links and tell me if they work well or not for you. Thanx.

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### Author: ![Gravity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gravity/32/14322_2.png) [@Gravity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gravity)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2001, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-signature-links/87053/2 "2001-10-12T14:58:13Z")

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They both worked fine for me, **AWB** , using IE 5.5.

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### Author: ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2001, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-signature-links/87053/3 "2001-10-12T15:06:04Z")

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It’s probably a browser-specific problem. Worked fine for me with IE, but I got broken picture links with Netscape.

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### Author: ![NutMagnet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ea5d25/32.png) [@NutMagnet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NutMagnet)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2001, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-signature-links/87053/4 "2001-10-12T15:06:17Z")

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Don’t work for me IE 5.00

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### Author: ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2001, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-signature-links/87053/5 "2001-10-12T18:01:53Z")

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Works fine for me, on AOL 6.0. By the way, I think this might belong in “About the Message Board”.

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### Author: ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2001, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-signature-links/87053/6 "2001-10-12T18:20:14Z")

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Netscape 4.78

The links to the pictures worked, but the pictures didn’t display on the main page. Using the right mouse menu I got this url: [http://fff.fathom.org/pages/AWB/pentagon/thumbs\pent009.jpg](http://fff.fathom.org/pages/AWB/pentagon/thumbs%5Cpent009.jpg)

The backslash is proably causing netscape problems; it wokred in ie5

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### Author: ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2001, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-signature-links/87053/7 "2001-10-12T19:26:15Z")

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Hmmm… looks like a browser-specific problem alright. Maybe something to do with the mixed case of the filenames.

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### Author: ![VenusProbe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e495f1/32.png) [@VenusProbe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VenusProbe)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2001, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-signature-links/87053/8 "2001-10-12T19:38:51Z")

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It’s the backslash() in the url, Netsrcape is very picky about that sort of thing. An easy to check you page is to go to [http://validator.w3.org](http://validator.w3.org) and type in the address, it’ll tell you what to fix so that all compliant browsers can use it.
