define href=""

One thing I would like defined is the action that the user agent takes
when the link is blank "". (a href, form action, img src, etc.) 

I did some testing, in the version of lynx that I tried, "" is interpreted
as the current file, Netscape however interprets it as the current
directory. 

Both of them interpret "./" as the current directory so that is what I
ended up using. 

Defining "" as the current file, and "./" as the current directory has one
advantage over the more intuitive "" = directory. It allows the option of
a self referencing file, useful if the file name itself is dynamic, which
leads to the question of, are URL parameters used in such a case. 

In any case it would be nice if it was defined.

Received on Friday, 13 June 1997 14:28:29 UTC