Hi - yet another comment regarding customer impact... This would definitely have impact on our custom tags and content module. Our inheritance model for content depends on relative links...
Regards Amir Mistric Enterprise Manager of Application Development 904-288-5757 > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 11:07 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [magnolia-dev] Question: what about using absolute > links instead of relative? > > Hi, > I'd like to hear some thoughts on something that I think > should be changed in the way links added with fckedit are handled. > > At this moment both cms:out than cms:setNode resolve those > links making them relative to the current page. I am not sure > why we decided to create relative links instead of absolute > ones, but I found several problems with this when using > virtual uri mappings or error pages served by magnolia. > When links are resolved in pages loaded with a URI that > doesn't match the path of the node links are broken: for > example if I put a link to the home page in a 404 page served > by magnolia the link will be resolved from the location of > the node of the 404 page, but the url in the browser refers > to page originally requested and it will not work. > > The question is: is there any reason why we should keep > relative links? I found that absolute ones works fine for me > in any situation, so I am not sure which is the pro of > relative ones (and there are a few cons)... > > changing that would be a matter of replacing > LinkUtil.convertUUIDsToRelativeLinks > with > LinkUtil.convertUUIDsToAbsoluteLinks > in Out and SetNode. I would be in favour of doing that, any thought? > > fabrizio > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > for list details see > http://documentation.magnolia.info/docs/en/editor/stayupdated.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------------------------------- for list details see http://documentation.magnolia.info/docs/en/editor/stayupdated.html ----------------------------------------------------------------
