- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 13:33:29 -0500
On 1/24/11 11:23 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote: >> Why did/does this markup work in other UAs? Or does it not? > > According to the Chromium bugs about Unicenter, Unicenter doesn't work in Opera or in WebKit-based browsers--only in Firefox and IE. Exciting. :( > When <base target> follows the <a>, IE6 ignores the target, because IE6 honors the most recent <base>. That's the Gecko 1.9.2 and earlier behavior as well, right? > IE7 and later ignore <base> outside <head>, so a <base> following an <a> gets ignored due to that reason. Right, and that breaks other sites, which is why we changed away from that behavior... I can't say I like the IE6/old-Gecko behavior, but it may be the most web-compatible. :( -Boris
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