[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 23249] New: display does not jump horizontally to a name anchor

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23249

           Summary: display does not jump horizontally to a name anchor
           Product: WebKit
           Version: 528+ (Nightly build)
          Platform: Macintosh
        OS/Version: Mac OS X 10.4
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Accessibility
        AssignedTo: webkit-unassigned at lists.webkit.org
        ReportedBy: j-k-a-p at gmx.de


With a page broader than the current window and containing a name anchor like
<a name="expecttoseethisanchor"> (e.g. attached to a location somewhere in a
paragraph in the right corner of a table), calling it's URL with one of those
anchors like 
http://www.mysite.xy/broadpage.html#expecttoseethisanchor
will just move the page vertically, not horizontally to that anchor.
If the anchor is outside of the current view, this behaviour is disturbing and
annoying.

(Apple's Safari ONCE had this correct behaviour (as the only browser, if I
remember), then lost part of this functionality (the anchor only appeared in
the top right corner with a left-to-right script where it once appeared in the
top left corner, as it should) but also Safari it dropped some time ago.)

I would expect a jump both vertical and horizontal, at least if the anchor
position is outside the current window. The jump could be reduced to a move
sufficient to completely display the paragraph or a different entity, like a
table cell or else.

So, the position of the anchor should also represent the script direction
(left-to-right or right-to-left) of the surrounding context.

Sorry, English is not my mother tongue.


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