[whatwg] Issues concerning the <base> element and xml:base
Krzysztof Żelechowski
giecrilj at stegny.2a.pl
Mon Mar 3 11:20:42 PST 2008
Dnia 01-03-2008, So o godzinie 17:12 -0800, Maciej Stachowiak pisze:
> On Mar 1, 2008, at 4:20 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote:
> > For example on a <a href="...">, does the user hovering the node
> > count?
>
> If you display an absolute URI to the user at this time it should get
> resolved against the current base, but since this is not a load, it
> should get resolved again when the user clicks the link, if the base
> changed.
I am not sure I understand you correctly
but if this introduces the ability
to make the user agent
report a different URL than the effective target,
it is going to be a sweet candy for phishers.
(Newer browsers made this effect unavailable to scripts).
Chris
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