I have tidied up one of my websites to make better use of CSS, and now intend to add some new pages to it. Of course I want to keep it Netsurf-friendly.
The <head> section of each article includes the usual link to my stylesheet, which (in Linux filepath syntax) might be 2018.css or ../2018.css or ../../2018.css etc depending how many branches back it roosts on the directory tree. Advice from Linuxland tells me that simply prefixing a "/" with no dots before it makes the link "absolute" (to the root of the website) rather than relative to the page where we are when writing the link. IT would be quite handy&welcome to use this trick rather than having to adjust the links for stylesheet, page background and top-of-page graphic if I relocate a page in the directory structure. This indeed works when viewing my page online. However, when developing the page in the local copy of my site rather than online, the "absolute" version of the link looks for the *root directory of my own RiscOS drive* rather than the root of the website. If I make a copy of the stylesheet as $.2018/css Netsurf is happy. Is there a way around this? Is there some setting I would need to make in Netsurf to define what I mean by "/" as root? (Presumably there is such a setting in my ISP's software, for I am not being taken to the root of their drive!) Excuse me if this is a dumb question, but I haven't been here before. http://glastonburyconservation.org.uk if anybody wants to have a look. -- Jim Nagel www.archivemag.co.uk || See you at the show? www.riscos-swshow.co.uk Feb 24
