Re: beef with CSS-specified image URLs

• From: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>
• Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 19:22:30 -0700
• To: <www-style@w3.org>
• Message-Id: <199707280223.TAA21342@sweden.it.earthlink.net>

Todd Fahrner wrote:
> I think CSS-specified image URLs should be relative to the
stylesheet,
> instead.

Absolutely. An external stylesheet doesn't know what HTML document it
may be used with. A declared background URL is more a part of the
stylesheet than the styled document, therefore relative URLs should be
relative to the stylesheet.

David Perrell

Received on Sunday, 27 July 1997 22:23:31 UTC