[whatwg] WA1: <base> and href

L. David Baron dbaron at dbaron.org
Mon Jul 18 11:21:02 PDT 2005


On Monday 2005-07-18 08:44 -0400, fantasai wrote:
> In HTML 4, the 'href' attribute of the <base> element is #REQUIRED.
> Is there a reason why in HTML 5 it is not required?

<base target="foo"> is pretty common on pages that use frames.  Then
again, the web apps spec doesn't seem to mention target at all.

-David

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L. David Baron                                <URL: http://dbaron.org/ >
          Technical Lead, Layout & CSS, The Mozilla Foundation
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