- From: Mike Altimore <ccmike@stmarytx.edu>
- Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 20:53:34 +0000
- To: in@"holstege@kset.com"
- Cc: in@"www-html@w3.org"
>Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 19:09:06 +0000 >To: holstege@kset.com >From: Mike Altimore <ccmike@stmarytx.edu> >Subject: Re: directory identifiers >Cc: in%"www=html@w3.org" > > >> >>You're not the stupid one, Microsoft is. The specification is very clear >>that "/" is the path separator, not "\". If it doesn't work that way in >>Internet Explorer, then Internet Explorer is broken. Before concluding >>that IE is hopelessly broken try this: >> >> (1) put in the closing quote >> (2) try the "./" form >> (3) put in a BASE tag >> >>Are you viewing these by opening them as a local file or by referring to >>a server that is running on your local machine. If the former, then >>"/images/foobar.gif" refers to something in a directory called "images" off >>the root directory (i.e. C:\IMAGES). If the latter then "/images/foobar.gif" >>refers most likely to some directory called "images" that is a subdirectory >>of the webserver root (although the webserver could map it anywhere). >>Then the reason the ".\images\foobar.gif" works has nothing to do with path >>separators and has everything to do with the fact that you are accessing a >>subdirectory of the current directory (or the BASE directory, if that has >>been set). I suspect this is the case. >> >> >> -- Mary >> Holstege@kset.com >> >> >>Mary Holstege, PhD >>Manager, Online Engineering >>KnowledgeSet Corporation >>555 Ellis Street Tel: (415) 254-5452 >>Mountain View, CA 94043 FAX: (415) 254-5451 >> >> >I am pulling the document up as a local file. Thanks for the <base> tag info. >I will try that. > >BTW, thanks for telling me about the " that I forgot. That was a mistype in >my e-mail and not my documents. > >Thanks again, > >Mike >
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