- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 00:19:14 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- cc: public-html <public-html@w3.org>
On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, Henri Sivonen wrote: > > 2) https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=592880 > > Hyperlatex generates a frameset with a content frame and a table of > contents frame. The table of contents puts <base target> after an > explicit <body> tag. Thus, the links in the ToC are mistargeted in > Firefox 4 betas. Hyperlatex also uses an Almost Standards doctype, which > means IE8 uses the IE8 Almost Standards mode and IE7 uses the IE7 > Standards Mode. This means the links are also mistargeted in IE7 and > IE8. Since the output of Hyperlatex is already broken in IE8, I treated > this as an evangelism bug. Clicking the Compatibility View button in IE8 > doesn't make the links work as intended, since the links were > mistargeted already in IE7. > > However, Hyperlatex seems to be an effectively unmaintained piece of > software, Hyperlatex-generated output appears on many servers around the > Web and Hyperlatex is available in e.g. Ubuntu repositories so it will > probably find users who generate even more content. It is not really > useful to break that content in Firefox 4 (or IE9!) even if it is broken > in IE7 and IE8. > > 3) https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=593807 > > The United Airlines online check-in process breaks for non-U.S. > citizens, because a page has the tag <c:set var="static_c2c" > value="true" scope="request"/> before <base>. In IE8, united.com is on > the Microsoft maintained Compatibility Mode list. Also, the problematic > page is doctypeless, so it gets processed in the IE 5.5 mode in IE8. > However, even if the page were in the IE8 Standards Mode, the <base> > would still take effect, because <c:set var="static_c2c" value="true" > scope="request"/> doesn't imply </head><body> in IE8. In IE9 mode in IE9 > PP4, <c:set var="static_c2c" value="true" scope="request"/> implies > </head><body> as in the HTML5 parsing algorithm and a subsequent <base> > doesn't take effect. On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, Adam Barth wrote: > > It seems like the easiest solution is just to allow <base> elements > outside of <head> to override the base URL. I've done that, for href="" and target="". -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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