- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 10:28:41 +0300
On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 15:55 -0400, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > On 5/8/11 12:11 AM, Ian Hickson wrote: > > On Mon, 24 Jan 2011, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > >> > >> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=627361 > > > > The conclusion seems to have been to attempt to keep the spec as it > > stands, and try to get the remaining problems addressed via evangelism. > > > > I approve of such an approach because it means I don't have to do > > anything. Also, and more importantly, the spec as it stands now is > > somewhat sane and pretty much any behaviour to address the remaining > > compatibility issues moves us away from sanity. > > > > Have there been more compatibility problems reported with<base> in the > > past few months that would change this conclusion? > > We've had more reports of the Unicenter failure, but no other new issues > reported, I believe. On WHATWG IRC, there was one report: http://mathiasbynens.be/demo/base Not citing specific real site breakage, though. The problem is that Gecko re-resolves existing images when the base URI of the documnet changes. IIRC, Hixie said that a change of base URI is not supposed to trigger re-resolution of the src of images that are already in the doc. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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