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justification for base tag; relative base might be OK in practice

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smcv 2014-09-18 14:27:44 -04:00 committed by admin
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@ -32,8 +32,10 @@ rather than solving one bug at the cost of exacerbating another.
* URIs in RSS feeds must be absolute, because feed readers do not have
any consistent semantics for the base of relative links
* If we have a `<base href>` then the HTML spec says it must be
absolute
* If we have a `<base href>` then HTML 4.01 says it must be
absolute, although HTML 5 does relax this by defining semantics
for a relative `<base href>` - it is interpreted relative to the
"fallback base URL" which is the URL of the page being viewed
([[bugs/trouble_with_base_in_search]],
[[bugs/preview_base_url_should_be_absolute]])
@ -62,6 +64,11 @@ rather than solving one bug at the cost of exacerbating another.
[[forum/Using_reverse_proxy__59___base_URL_is_http_instead_of_https]],
[[forum/Dot_CGI_pointing_to_localhost._What_happened__63__]])
* For relative links in page-previews to work correctly without
having to have global state or thread state through every use of
`htmllink` etc., `cgitemplate` needs to make links in the page body
work as if we were on the page being previewed.
# "Would be nice"
* In general, the more relative the better