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Bug 15115 - Dear Sirs, How much more useful useful the <base href=""> tag would be if it could be nested. Full URLs would be unaffected, but partial paths could be concatenated. Could not a whole site then be rebased by changing the <base href="" for just the home pa
Summary: Dear Sirs, How much more useful useful the <base href=""> tag would be if it ...
Status: RESOLVED NEEDSINFO
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-12-08 16:54 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-12-09 22:14 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-12-08 16:54:13 UTC 
Specification: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top

Comment:
Dear Sirs,

How much more useful useful the <base href=""> tag would be if it could be
nested. Full URLs would be unaffected, but partial paths could be
concatenated. Could not a whole site then be rebased by changing the <base
href="" for just the home page?

Kind Regards

Ian Pedley ian@ctpp.co.uk


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Comment 1 Tab Atkins Jr. 2011-12-09 00:54:54 UTC 
I don't understand quite what you are requesting.  Could you explain the problem you're trying to solve?
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-12-09 22:14:41 UTC 
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Status: Did Not Understand Request
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: see comment 1