JS bug: location.hash, .href

[Will Stephenson]

Please excuse me asking the list about this but I am not sure if it is a bug, 
I will post it to bugs.kde.org if it is.  

I was using a form (http://www.gradschools.ac.uk/apply/apply_apply.html), some 
JS in it moves you around, but has the unpleasant side effect of blanking the 
form of all input so far.

I looked around and found it was because they assign to location.href in order 
to move the user around the form, I've produced a testcase which demonstrates 
this, but more importantly, using location.hash (which I think is the proper 
way) to move to a named anchor also clears the form.

I have a hunch that IE users wouldn't see the form cleared with either .href 
or .hash as its crazy caching fills out the form contents again for you.

I don't really know whether what is being done here is canonical JS (not a 
specialist) so I would appreciate it if you could tell me if Konq is behaving 
correctly or if it's a bug.  

Testcase attached below.

Please cc: me in on any reply as I'm not subscribed.

Will

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Will Stephenson
Dept. of Computing Science      University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
Telephone  +44 191 2228067      ICQ#       51765637
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