On this site I’m redesigning, the author has a few links on the main page (not the index) that are to livejournals and such. The links read http://www.livejournal.com/~myname
When they’re clicked on (in ie 6) the ~ turns into %7E and displays a “Not Found” error.
I’ve double-checked the links, and they should be working fine. What could be causing this?
It works fine in IE5, is IE6 still beta?
That’s not the URL. And it works fine when I type it into the address bar. Just when I click on the link in her site.
Try replacing each occurrence of the tilde with
~
Does that help at all?
Yes!
Thank you!
Why does it do that?
I’ve no idea why it does that in your case at all, sorry!
I did it on my site purely because I ran it through an XHTML validator and it demanded that I replace non-standard characters in URLs with the proper reference codes. Most browsers seem to overlook this failure to meet standards and take a common-sense / slapdash approach, but maybe IE6 doesn’t.