[whatwg] base/xml:base

[Anne van Kesteren]

Robert Sayre wrote:
> I'm not sure where this fits in the WhatWG backwards compatibility 
> requirements, but would it be possible to allow finer-grained control 
> over the baseURI in sections of a page? I gather that Mozilla already 
> does this with xml:base and that sticking base elements in the HTML body 
> is a hack that seems to work in some browsers (ick). I believe it's 
> quite likely page authors will want to aggregate content with disparate 
> baseURIs, whether from syndication, dashboard widgets, or something 
> else. So, could one of the new elements in WA 1.0 grow a base attribute 
> and explicit support for xml:base?

<http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-base>

States that for XML documents you must use xml:base and must not use 
xhtml:base.


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  Anne van Kesteren
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