Mordechai: <base> affects what the leading slash actually points to. You could have a little app in http://localhost/myApp and code all your pages up to use <img src="/myApp/images/myImage.gif">, but when you move the app into another directory (eg. http://localhost/yourApp) you then need to do a find & replace on every URL in every document site wide to change this path. If you are using <base> from day one you only need to change the path within one tag.
James: Yes - I know you can do this and we usually do, http://projectName.gruden.com for staging and http://project.gruden.int for internal and http://projectName.machineName.gruden.int for actual developers desktops. I guess the key thing in both of these cases is that <base> gives you a flexibility that you would otherwise not have. Its not the answer to every problem and its not something you MUST DO EVERYTIME - its just there for our convinience. And sometimes its pretty handy. -- Mark Stanton Gruden Pty Ltd http://www.gruden.com ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help *****************************************************
