[whatwg] [URL] Resolving against the base of the current page

[Anne van Kesteren]

On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 7:56 AM, Jake Archibald <jaffathecake at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://url.spec.whatwg.org/
>
> How would I create a URL relative to the page, but taking into account
> <base> (and anything else that may affect relative urls on the page)?

document.baseURI?


> It feels like the 2nd constructor parameter should default to the page's
> base url, and you could pass window.location.href in if you wanted to
> override <base>.
>
> So:
>
> <img src="cat.gif">
> new URL('cat.gif').href == document.querySelector('img').src;
>
> And:
>
> if (new URL('cat.gif').href !== new URL('cat.gif', location.href).href) {
>   // something is modifying the base url
> }

I think I'd prefer consistent results for the constructor across
scripts if you omit a base URL.


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