> Heh. I disagree. Both relative URLs and "site root relative" > URLs would resolve just fine, in fact maybe better than absolute URLs. > Say the site was moved from a private domain to a public one. > Or the original server is now down. And add that you are > copy/moving a site, not a single page, to make it worth while.
If you copy the entire site, you probably don't need absolute URLs. If you copy one file, and only one file, it will need absolute URLs to have everything resolve properly. There's a reason why some sites use absolute URLs or BASE tags. > See, it can just get silly, and thus my preference for not > muddying the waters by calling absolute URLs absolute paths. But a URL is a path! It's not a filesystem path, but it's a path nonetheless. When you type a URL in your browser, you're telling the browser what it needs to know to get to a file. That's a path. Any time you use an IMG or A tag to point to something, it contains a URL. > Why not call it "absolute site root", and avoid the > confusion? Or we could call the plain old relative URLs > "page absolute" or "current directory absolute". I don't know. My point was simply that terminology exists to describe these three sorts of URLs (or paths, if you prefer). I am not trying to say that they are the best possible ways to describe them, just that they exist, and are commonly used by lots of people. Such is the nature of jargon, or terms of art, in any field. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:239139 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
