How would HTML 4.01 clients respond to multiple BASE tags in a HTML 5 document? Even with extra attributes to say "Restrict this to a particular content-type," you'd probably see some less-than-desirable side effects - HTML 4 clients wouldn't care about them.<br>
<br>The BASE tag affects how the document's other resources are loaded. Older clients reading the document would probably break.<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>"The first step in confirming there is a bug in someone else's work is confirming there are no bugs in your own."<br>
-- Alexander J. Vincent, June 30, 2001<br>