[whatwg] WA1: <base> and href

[fantasai]

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.

Yes. If 'target' were added to WA1, then I'd say require "either 'target'
or 'href'": I don't see any use in allowing <base> with no attributes.

~fantasai