Anne van Kesteren wrote:
On Thu, 31 May 2007 01:44:57 +0200, Jonas Sicking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I would be hesitant to drop support for multiple <base>s in firefox
actually. Implementation wise it was very easy to implement, and it is
known that many pages out there break, though the percentage is small,
there are a lot of pages on the internet.
It might be something we could restrict to quirks mode pages though,
that's not a bad idea at all.
Please don't introduce more quirks mode nonsense. We have more than
enough already as it is.
I'm not saying that we should add it to the spec. I'm saying that
firefox might be able to remove support for the weird <base> behavior in
standards mode, while retaining it in quirks mode.
I dislike quirks mode stuff too, but any other choice isn't very pretty
here either. I can see 3 possible solutions:
1. What we do now, i.e. support multiple <base> elements in both quirks
and standards mode. If the spec will not support multiple <base> then
this would make us non-compliant with the spec.
2. Not support multiple <base> elements in either quirks nor standards
mode. This would break a lot of pages (36000 in hixies test) for
no really good reason since very little code is needed to deal with
it.
3. Only support multiple <base> elements in quirks mode but not standard
mode.
Pick your poison.
/ Jonas
