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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/todo/design_for_cross-linking_between_content_and_CGI.mdwn | 11 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/todo/design_for_cross-linking_between_content_and_CGI.mdwn b/doc/todo/design_for_cross-linking_between_content_and_CGI.mdwn index d00368bfb..64b3e848c 100644 --- a/doc/todo/design_for_cross-linking_between_content_and_CGI.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/design_for_cross-linking_between_content_and_CGI.mdwn @@ -32,8 +32,10 @@ rather than solving one bug at the cost of exacerbating another. * URIs in RSS feeds must be absolute, because feed readers do not have any consistent semantics for the base of relative links -* If we have a `<base href>` then the HTML spec says it must be - absolute +* If we have a `<base href>` then HTML 4.01 says it must be + absolute, although HTML 5 does relax this by defining semantics + for a relative `<base href>` - it is interpreted relative to the + "fallback base URL" which is the URL of the page being viewed ([[bugs/trouble_with_base_in_search]], [[bugs/preview_base_url_should_be_absolute]]) @@ -62,6 +64,11 @@ rather than solving one bug at the cost of exacerbating another. [[forum/Using_reverse_proxy__59___base_URL_is_http_instead_of_https]], [[forum/Dot_CGI_pointing_to_localhost._What_happened__63__]]) +* For relative links in page-previews to work correctly without + having to have global state or thread state through every use of + `htmllink` etc., `cgitemplate` needs to make links in the page body + work as if we were on the page being previewed. + # "Would be nice" * In general, the more relative the better |