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Re: LYNX-DEV <BASE> bug (versions 2.5 and 2.6)
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Al Gilman |
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Re: LYNX-DEV <BASE> bug (versions 2.5 and 2.6) |
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Wed, 8 Jan 1997 17:12:52 -0500 (EST) |
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This is a bug. Like brain dead comment parsing, it may be useful
to have lynx optionally work this way, it is not something that
should always be.
:r! lynx -dump -source http://www.netusa.net/~eli/notes/base.html
<html><head><title>Base Test</title>
<base href="/~eli/">
^^^^^^^^ Yes, this is a bug. This is not an absolute URI.
No, what Lynx does with it is not a bug.
What Lynx does when you put an illegal value
in an href cannot be called a bug.
This is in violation of the HTML 2.0 specs. Look at
<URL:http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_5.html#SEC5.2.2>
and notice the sentence "The value of the HREF attribute must be
an absolute URI."
-- Note: must _be_ an absolute URI.
-- Not: must _be accepted as_ an absolute URI.
Yes, but the standard does not control what a browser does when the
text fails to meet this requirement.
Al Gilman
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