anchors from Hoyt, Phil on 2001-12-02 (www-html@w3.org from December 2001)

From: Hoyt, Phil <Phil.Hoyt@globeinteractive.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 17:44:41 -0500
To: www-html@w3.org
Message-ID: <F61568F110EAD411BD350008C7860164091FE2AE@commercial.globeinteractive.com>

I think it's common practice to link using href="#name" to an anchor within
the same document. I've been unable, though, to find a way either in the
real world or in the html spec to use a similar syntax to link to an anchor
within the same document as the link when <base href="http://www.url.com">
is being used. Instead, such a link refers to an anchor on the base
document.

Adding a ./ in front of the # has no effect and the spec doesn't seem to
insist that it should.

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