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Re: LYNX-DEV Question about BASE implementation

From: Subir Grewal
Subject: Re: LYNX-DEV Question about BASE implementation
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 00:26:09 -0400 (EDT) 
On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Foteos Macrides wrote:

:       Gee!!!  I didn't understand what Subir was asking, nor figure
:it out from looking at those two documements, and I still don't
:understand it from this explanation.  Could somebody explain it again,
:perhaps with explicit HREFs and BASEs, and what the resolved URLs were
:hoped to be, but aren't with Lynx?

Glad to comply.  I'm sorry my message was indecipherable.  I must really
work on getting things across.  In any case, say the following markup is
found in the document at the URL
http://www.nyu.edu/pages/wsn/subir/canyu.html

<html> <head>
<base href="http://www.nyu.edu/pages/advocacy/index.html";>
</head>

<body>
<h1>CANYU</h1>

<p>Internal link to <a href="#fragment">a fragment of this
document</a> (i.e. http://www.nyu.edu/pages/wsn/subir/canyu.html) </p>

<p>Relative link to <a href="info/pgp/">PGP information</a> found at
absolute URL http://www.nyu.edu/pages/advocacy/info/pgp/ </p>

<p>Link to absolute URL <a
href="http://www.foo.com/";>http://www.foo.com/</a></p>

<h2><a name="fragment">Fragment of this this document</a></h2>

<p>This fragment is found in http://www.nyu.edu/pages/wsn/subir/canyu.html
but is not found in the document at the URL
http://www.nyu.edu/pages/advocacy/index.html (href for BASE).</p>

<p>It is hoped that any internal links to fragments of _this_ document
will not be converted to an absolute URL using the href attribute of the
BASE tag.  i.e. references to &quot;#fragment&quot; will not be resolved
into references to
http://www.nyu.edu/pages/advocacy/index.html#fragment</p>

<p>At the same time it is hoped that relative links to _other_ documents
will be resolved into absolute URLss using the base tag.  Thus a relative
link to &quot;info/pgp&quot; would be resolved into
http://www.nyu.edu/pages/advocacy/info/pgp/ </p>

<p>However, as per Klaus' post, this would be invalid behaviour for the
client Lynx which may be the only WWW application--developed by an
independent group having no vested interest in the course that future
development of the HTML takes--to follow the standards.  Subir doesn't
really want this functionality so much that he would be willing to ask
that Lynx behave arbitrarily ;~)  Subir knows nothing about how other
browsers tackle this probleem because he does not have access to other 
browsers from wherehe's sitting right now (and Bob Dole says...) </p>

</body> </html>

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