Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-web (40 mails)

[Christian Boltz <opensuse@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

(just going through the list archive, so don't be surprised that I 
answer a quite old mail ;-)

on Freitag, 12. Dezember 2008, Robert Lihm wrote:
> On 12.12.2008, at 13:36, Peter Poeml wrote:
> > Would it make sense, in the future, to make use of a common base
> > URL in the HTML head?
> >
> >     <base href="http://static.opensuse.org/hosts/www.o.o"; />

> Probably it could force problems with our Rails apps ... I found a
> contra after wie talked about this last time. But I can't remember
> now. We should ask abauer before wie change something.

Be warned that <base href=...> affects every link and file reference, 
even links like <a href="#section"> (interpreted 
as "http://static.opensuse.org/hosts/www.o.o/#section"; to use the 
example above). This means all links have to be written as absolute 
links ("http://www.opensuse.org/page.html#section";), which can cause 
some headache on maintenance.

I went to this loop on a Typo3 website I implemented. I had to use <base 
href> because of the realurl plugin which creates "nice" URLs for all 
pages. Fortunately Typo3 can automatically prepend all #section links 
with the current URL automatically, so things are quite easy there.

But: If you maintain your pages manually, this causes lots of work 
(rename a file? change all internal links!) and is more error-prone 
than prefixing images etc. with the static.opensuse.org path (you'll 
easily note a missing image ;-)

To make the story short: Unless you auto-generate all links, using a 
<base href> tag can cause some headache. I normally tend to avoid it.


Regards,

Christian Boltz
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