- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2001 18:04:59 +0100
- To: Masayasu Ishikawa <mimasa@w3.org>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
* Masayasu Ishikawa wrote:
>"Hoyt, Phil" <Phil.Hoyt@globeinteractive.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>Actually such a behavoir is wrong [...]
>So a fragment identifier should be interpreted as a reference within
>the current document, regardless of the base URI. Unfortunately,
>as you noticed, many user agents do it wrong.
>
>[RFC 2396] http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt
HTML 4.01 doesn't reference this RFC, it references RC 1808 which
mandates the described behaivour. User Agents don't do it "wrong",
they do it backwards compatible.
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