- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:01:59 +0000 (UTC)
On Mon, 9 Nov 2009, Fabian Freiburg wrote: > > The "base" element is very helpful. Trouble is that it affects all > relative links and "src" attributes. Especially for the "src" attributes > it would be very useful if it could define a context or media type to > which it belongs. With this it would be possible to define a "base" URI > fore. g. images, javascripts or stylesheets. Furthermore it would be > very easy to use a CDN for serving static media files. There are > probably some more advantages. It's not exactly clear to me what problem this is solving. Isn't giving absolute URLs pretty straight-forward? It seems that anyone who is using a CDN wouldn't have any trouble just generating the absolute URLs dynamically using server-side scripting or templating, making this unnecessary on the client. Note that in general the process for proposing new features is as described here: http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/FAQ#Is_there_a_process_for_adding_new_features_to_a_specification.3F Should you wish to persue this idea, I recommend following the steps described above. Cheers, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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