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diff --git a/doc/bugs/trouble_with_base_in_search.mdwn b/doc/bugs/trouble_with_base_in_search.mdwn index ca6a6c5cc..7c3d13387 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/trouble_with_base_in_search.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/trouble_with_base_in_search.mdwn @@ -58,3 +58,14 @@ And I'm sure someone else could come up with something better and more general. >> I suppose what I would like would be to not need to use a `<base href>` in searching at all. >> --[[KathrynAndersen]] + +>>> `<base href>` is *not* required to be absolute in HTML5, so when +>>> `html5: 1` is used, I've changed it to be host-relative in most cases. +>>> I think that at least partially addresses this bug report, +>>> particularly if we [[todo/generate HTML5 by default]] like I've suggested. +>>> +>>> The `<base>` is there so we can avoid having to compute how to +>>> get to (the virtual directory containing) the root of the wiki from +>>> `ikiwiki.cgi`, which might well be somewhere odd like `/cgi-bin/`. +>>> I think there are probably other things that it fixes or simplifies. +>>> --[[smcv]] |