[whatwg] Issues concerning the <base> element and xml:base

[Ian Hickson]

On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, Calogero Alex Baldacchino wrote:
>
> What should happen to a linked style sheet disabled during the first 
> casced and enabled after the <base> has been changed? Or if it was first 
> enabled, than disabled before changing the <base>, and re-enabled after?

For external resource links created with the <link> element, the URL is 
resolved when the resource is fetched, which can be delayed if the 
resource doesn't apply yet (e.g. because a media query doesn't yet match). 
This could lead to situations where different user agents had compliant 
behavior, unfortunately, but this is one case where I can't see how to 
avoid it without requiring suboptimal behavior.

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