Re: Absolute BASE

>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?

That would be contrary to the purpose of BASE though, wouldn't it? BASE DEFINES what the relative URIs are based on, and make the href for *base* relative as well would pretty much defeat the purpose.


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Received on Thursday, 26 February 1998 15:59:40 UTC