- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 10:55:54 -0800
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky at mit.edu> wrote: > On 1/25/11 3:09 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote: >> >> Since Unicenter reportedly uses an EmulateIE7 X-UA-Compatible, presumably >> the product was still being maintained when IE8 was released. Maybe there's >> a slight chance that they could take out the bogus<base target> > > For what it's worth, it looks like their <base target> comes right before > some sort of footer... and I bet in IE6 the links in that footer actually > target the toplevel window, which I also bet is the reason they have the > <base> tag there. ?Of course that's all broken in IE7.... > >> One 100% browser-side option (that I don't like but am mentioning for >> completeness) that would make both Unicenter and hyperlatex work without >> introducing code for keeping track of multiple<base target>s in the tree >> order would be limiting<base target> ?to<head> ?in the quirks mode but >> honoring the first<base target> ?in the other modes. > > Hmm. ?I might be willing to deal with his quirk.... This sounds like the best option so far. Or simply doing nothing and keeping what we currently have. I can't really gauge how much stuff we so far know will break if we do that though. / Jonas
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