- From: Russell Steven Shawn O'Connor <roconnor@wronski.math.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 10:00:10 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-html@w3.org
On 22 Apr 1998, Peter Flynn wrote:
> Any paticular reason for requiring the HREF attribute in the BASE element
> to be an absolute URI? Why not resolve a relative URI according to the
> document's URI?
>
> Because that's the action to be taken when BASE is absent. BASE is for
> forcing a document's links to resolve to a place where resolution is
> know to work (like the doc's home site).
I mean for example supose a document resides at
http://www.example.com/doc.html It has a base value of "/some/dir/" And a
link to "somefile.html" So the link would take them to
http://www.example.com/some/dir/somefile.html.
This seems very natural to me.
--
Russell O'Connor roconnor@uwaterloo.ca
<URL:http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/%7Eroconnor/>
"And truth irreversibly destroys the meaning of its own message"
-- Anindita Dutta, "The Paradox of Truth, the Truth of Entropy"
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