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A question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Grzesiek Staniak)
Mon Oct 17 19:15:15 1994
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 1994 00:13:32 +0100
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From: "Grzesiek Staniak" <GSTANIAK@golem.umcs.lublin.pl>
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www0.cern.ch>
These are going to be beginner's questions - I read messages from
this list hoping to learn something, but for now I'm just a computer
user that accidentaly is producing HTML scripts for a university.
Could anybody please explain to me briefly and like
I don't know anything about HTML in what way the <BASE> element works?
I know it allows the browser to resolve relative URLs within a document,
but I still don't feel secure using it. I've been forced to do it in
order to avoid keeping hundreds of GIFs and HTML documents in one
directory. However, in a document where I put:
<BASE HREF="www.blah.blah"> - the place where my "index.html" is kept
...
<A HREF="index.html">...</a> - a link back to Home Page
my Mosaic browser returned an error: "failed to locate the host
index.html". Why? Do I need to specify addresses in full form even though
the <BASE> is used?
Another problem, this time related to the new Mosaic Corporation browser,
Netscape: when I use a <BASE> element like above and anchors within one
document, like:
<A HREF="#section">
...
<A NAME="section">
after clicking on the link it starts looking for a host
"http://www.blah.blah#section"! This doesn't make any sense to me. Why
should it treat a reference like #section exactly like a relative path?
Is it due to Mosaic Corporations' implementation of HTML (I gather
Mozilla is its name)? The old Mosaic browser has no problems with jumping
to sections of a document.
And, finally - since I can't help thinking it may be the case that I'm
simply a long time behind - could you direct me to the freshest HTML and
HTTP specs?
Thanks for help.
....................................
Grzesiek Staniak
e-mail: gstaniak@golem.umcs.lublin.pl
