- From: Justin Lebar <justin.lebar@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:52:52 -0400
The document base URL [1] is used when fetching resources. Right now, if a page doesn't have a <base> element, the document base URL is set to the document's address. ?(I'm going to call this the "document's original address".) ?The document's original address does not change when you call pushState; only the document's current address [2] does. I think the base URI should use the document's current address, not the original address. To see why this makes sense, consider the following scenario: * User loads page.html * Page calls pushState and changes its url to page2.html * User clicks on a link with href "#foo". As currently specified, we'll resolve #foo relative to the document's original URL; that is, clicking the link will take the user to page.html#foo, not page2.html#foo. ?But the intent of a link with href #foo is clearly to navigate within the current page, not to go somewhere else. Firefox 4 already implements pushState as I'm suggesting here. -Justin [1] http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/urls.html#document-base-url [2] http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/dom.html#the-document%27s-current-address
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