Absolute BASE

• From: Russell Steven Shawn O'Connor <roconnor@wronski.math.uwaterloo.ca>
• Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 23:26:16 -0500 (EST)
• To: www-html@w3.org
• Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.980225232304.26375A-100000@wronski.math.uwaterloo.ca>

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?

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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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