15707 2012-01-25 10:42:21 +0000 "When a document's document base URL changes" - removing a <base> doesn't immediately change the document base URL, since the algo that sets it doesn't run until a URL gets resolved. 2012-09-14 13:10:01 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG HTML unspecified Other other RESOLVED FIXED http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#dynamic-changes-to-base-urls P3 normal Unsorted 1 contributor ian ian mike silviapfeiffer1 zcorpan contributor oldest_to_newest 63095 0 contributor 2012-01-25 10:42:21 +0000 Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/urls.html Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#dynamic-changes-to-base-urls Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#dynamic-changes-to-base-urls Comment: "When a document's document base URL changes" - removing a <base> doesn't immediately change the document base URL, since the algo that sets it doesn't run until a URL gets resolved. Posted from: 85.227.157.105 by simonp@opera.com User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_8) AppleWebKit/535.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1003.1 Safari/535.16 70474 1 contributor 2012-07-18 08:00:22 +0000 This bug was cloned to create bug 18006 as part of operation convergence. 72009 2 ian 2012-08-10 03:09:11 +0000 The algorithm never gets explicitly run, the document base URL is just defined to be that. It just happens that that definition is in a step of another algorithm, but that doesn't have any normative effect. Should I move the definition to its own subsection somewhere maybe? Would that be less confusing? 72185 3 zcorpan 2012-08-15 07:46:41 +0000 If it's not intended to be run as part of the algorithm it is in, then it is extremely confusing to put it in the algorithm. Right now, I see "When a document's document base URL changes, all elements in that document are affected by a base URL change." and the definition of "document base URL" is part of the resolve a URL algorithm, and I don't see anything else invoking the "document base URL" steps, so clearly the document base URL can't change until resolve a URL gets run. If "document base URL" algorithm is supposed to run when a base element is inserted or removed or has its attributes changed (etc), then you should say so. 72624 4 ian 2012-08-23 19:26:42 +0000 The algorithm isn't supposed to be triggered, it's just a definition. Just like in mathematics, if "a = b + c", you don't "cache" the value of "a" the first time you use it, it's just defined as being the sum of b and c. Whenever b or c changes, a changes. If you need to do something when a changes, then you need to do it whenever b or c change (unless they simultaneously change by the same amount in opposite directions so as to make the sum stay the same). Still, I can definitely move the definition out of the parent algorithm to make this clearer. 72713 5 ian 2012-08-24 18:51:54 +0000 Is this better? 73922 6 silviapfeiffer1 2012-09-14 13:10:01 +0000 I assume you were referring to http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=7265&to=7266