I think that only for stolen sites comment is a little off. For
example I'll often develop something on my local machine on a URL like
http://localhost/project-name and then deploy it on its own URL.
base is invaluable in this sort of situation.
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Kay Smoljak wrote:
www.example.com/foo/bar/ rather than www.example.com?foo=bar. In this
situation, the relative links no longer make sense
But using a leading slash eliminated the need for the base.
Also, mod_rewrite works fine with relative addressing. When Apache
doesn't find the .htaccess
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
If you are using base from day one
you only need to change the path within one tag.
But you still need to do it for every page in your site that uses it...
So we are comparing the merit of making find/replaces site wide for
all links vs. find/replace site wide for a specific tag.
Or am I
http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/07/12/HNielosesshare_1.html
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Hello fellow members of the Web Standards Group!
I use a css drop down menu that works fantastic for most browsers, except
for Internet Explorer (off course).
The menu is tested in Opera, Firefox and Netscape and in these browsers the
menu seems to work as expected.
IE, however, give me an
Also - http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/07/26/1090693888524.html
Firefox has been getting some good press recently.
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Hi all
I'm in the process of validating the markup in a suite of on-line
assessment tools, which includes an ability measure. As you can imagine,
in situations where those being assessed share the same computer, it's
not acceptable for IE users with AutoComplete enabled to have the
previous
Hi All
I just noticed that our discussion on XHTML 1.0 Transitional and
autocomplete went off list.
I've posted this in hopes that others may benefit from the info.
Cheers
Chris Blown
On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 13:00, Peter Asquith wrote:
Chris
Thanks for the tip on the meta statements - I've
