Re: URLs in hrefs

On 4/23/07, Michael Smethurst <Michael.Smethurstbbc.co.uk> wrote:
> But the question remains:
> Microformats aside, if I'm making a new website from
scratch (no legacy
> code/markup) and I want to encourage others to hack,
mashup, interwingle it
> with other data is it best to use /radio4 or http://www.bbc.co.uk/radi
o4
> ?

you can have the best of both worlds. In each <a
href=""> just use
"/radio4". This makes the link relative. But then
you can also add a
<base href="http://bbc.co.uk/"&g
t; when this is in your HTML it will make
all the hrefs absolute (or it should for any decent
parser).

The advantage of using the <base> element is that you
can easily
switch it to something like <base href="http://my-dev-
site.bcc.co.uk">
and you don't have to rewrite all the hrefs within the
HTML.

-brian

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"Brian Suda" <brian.sudagmail.com> writes:

> you can have the best of both worlds. In each <a
href=""> just use
> "/radio4". This makes the link relative. But
then you can also add a
> <base href="http://bbc.co.uk/"&g
t; when this is in your HTML it will make
> all the hrefs absolute (or it should for any decent
parser).
>
> The advantage of using the <base> element is that
you can easily
> switch it to something like <base href="http://my-dev-
site.bcc.co.uk">
> and you don't have to rewrite all the hrefs within the
HTML.

Hey! Good suggestion.

Easy to generate as well.

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rier.co.uk   
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On 4/23/07, Brian Suda <brian.sudagmail.com> wrote:
> you can have the best of both worlds. In each <a
href=""> just use
> "/radio4". This makes the link relative. But
then you can also add a
> <base href="http://bbc.co.uk/"&g
t; when this is in your HTML it will make
> all the hrefs absolute (or it should for any decent
parser).
>
> The advantage of using the <base> element is that
you can easily
> switch it to something like <base href="http://my-dev-
site.bcc.co.uk">
> and you don't have to rewrite all the hrefs within the
HTML.

With the slight downside that it makes your code a little
more
brittle, as you have to make sure the URI shown in BASE is
the right
thing!

Regards, etc...

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Founder, BlogMatrix
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Simple and elegant

For some reason I'd always thought base was something set in
the http header
rather than the markup

The longer I spend with html the less I think I know

Anyway thanks for your help


On 23/4/07 13:22, "Brian Suda" <brian.sudagmail.com> wrote:

> On 4/23/07, Michael Smethurst <Michael.Smethurstbbc.co.uk> wrote:
>> But the question remains:
>> Microformats aside, if I'm making a new website
from scratch (no legacy
>> code/markup) and I want to encourage others to
hack, mashup, interwingle it
>> with other data is it best to use /radio4 or http://www.bbc.co.uk/radi
o4
>> ?
> 
> you can have the best of both worlds. In each <a
href=""> just use
> "/radio4". This makes the link relative. But
then you can also add a
> <base href="http://bbc.co.uk/"&g
t; when this is in your HTML it will make
> all the hrefs absolute (or it should for any decent
parser).
> 
> The advantage of using the <base> element is that
you can easily
> switch it to something like <base href="http://my-dev-
site.bcc.co.uk">
> and you don't have to rewrite all the hrefs within the
HTML.
> 
> -brian


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