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Re: LYNX-DEV <base href> change hurts me badly
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Jason Baker |
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Re: LYNX-DEV <base href> change hurts me badly |
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Thu, 13 Feb 1997 11:25:49 -0800 |
On Feb 13, Will Mengarini wrote:
[snip]
> The subtopics might link directly to the text, which would be
> an http:// URL linking to the copy on the remote server, or they might
> link to subsubtopics, which would be further down in the local table
> of contents. So http:// links were intermixed with file:// links.
But <BASE> is not a <BODY> tag - it's a <HEAD> tag. You were taking
advantage of a bug in using <BASE> in the <BODY>. That's my read from
looking at
http://www.webtechs.com/sgml/Wilbur/base.html
Base lists its parent as HEAD, and there is no BASE tag listed
in the BODY listing.
[snip]
> * I remember spending many hours searching online HTML documentation
> when I first created my local tables of contents, trying to
> get <base href> usage right, & I ended up just needing to hack
> until I found something that worked. Is there a hack I could
> apply to the HTML I showed above that'd make it alert-free under
> 2-7? Remember that although this would solve my problems, &
> I'd be grateful for it, it doesn't help other users who may
> be using "historical base hrefs" which no longer work, either
> because file:// <base href>s now all seem to refer to the
> current file, or because they're getting the apparent hang.
Check: http://www.webtechs.com/sgml/Wilbur/ for 3.2 specs. They're
quite simple to understand in terms of what's allowed where, and
absolutely correct in what's allowed inside - you just need to understand
the lingo (IE: the BASE attributes are HREF, value CDATA, default value
is required).
I'm not sure that the BASE HREF needs to be absolute - but it definately
may only appear in the HEAD.
[immense included HTML file cut]
You really shouldn't attach things that big - think of the poor
folks on dialup POP connections. Either include a URL, and people
can go look at it, or compress it, then attatch the compressed file.
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