[whatwg] WA1: <base> and href

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Mon Jul 18 12:22:49 PDT 2005


On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, L. David Baron wrote:
>
> 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.

Or frames much, yeah. I'll probably be covering them at the same time 
(but not for a while).

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