Re: LYNX-DEV when relative URLs should ignore BASE

[Al Gilman]

to follow up on what Foteos Macrides said:

> The fragments for the text/html "media type" presently have two possible
> "interpretations".  One is "Go find the MAP for this client-side image
> map to interpret how clicks in various positions of the image should
> be handled." (Lynx can't inline images, and has its own, different but
> homologous interpretation. :)  The other is for positioning within the
> document.  

The action taken on HREF and on USEMAP is different but the
interpretation of the fragment in #fragment is one and the same.
It is a reference into the namespace of anchor.name's and
other.id's created in the enclosing HTML [etc.] document.

It is one and the same name/reference scheme used both for
navigation and map linkage.  But for USEMAP, you don't have to
check that the target is a MAP, its ( NAME | ID ) is known to be
unique among all identified elements.

Al