- From: Sam Vilain <sam@hydro.gen.nz>
- Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 13:19:25 +1300 (NZDT)
- To: Alex Fabrikant <afabrikant@smtpgtwy.ausd.k12.ca.us>
- cc: roconnor@uwaterloo.ca, www-html@w3.org, roconnor@wronski.math.uwaterloo.ca
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Alex Fabrikant 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? > 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. However, what he's probably trying to do is use a BASE clause to make all his links not dependant on the depth of the current document in the tree - ie so that when he says "images/foo.png" it resolves to "../images/foo.png" (or whatever). Then this means you can move files up and down the tree without changing much, and a whole branch elsewhere without altering all the "base" tags in each file. One similar feature I would like to see added would be the addition of a "ROOT" tag - being a string that prepends any URI starting with '/'. This would aid mirroring etc.
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