- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2008 16:20:35 -0800
Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 13:29:41 +0100, Jonas Sicking <jonas at sicking.cc> wrote:
>> Personally it's something I would be very reluctant to do. It would
>> add a whole lot of code for basically no benefit for web developers. I
>> have never heard of anyone that actually desired changing the base uri
>> for all or parts of a page dynamically.
>
> Note that the new base URI would only take effect once you actually did
> something with a potentially affected object. For instance, <img> would
> not start loading a new image if the base URI changes. <img>.src =
> <img>.getAttribute("src") could start loading a new resource however if
> the base URI changed since the initial load.
Well, that was my intention with the initial proposal. But Hixie pointed
out that "did something" is a very hard thing to define. For example on
a <a href="...">, does the user hovering the node count? Does resizing
the window count? Does removing the node from the DOM and reinserting it
count?
/ Jonas
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