[Zope-dev] Bases, index_html and Magic

[Dieter Maurer]

Chris Withers writes:
 > Dieter Maurer wrote:
 > > 
 > > Zope does not do it, but sets a "base" tag.
 > > This is another approach, good for Zope but difficult for
 > > Apache...
 > > Usually, this allows to correctly resolve relative links.
 > > But the magic only works, if your "index_html" has
 > > a "head" tag.
 > 
 > Hopefully this will go away never to return in the 'New Religion' :-S
Why?

It is much better than broken relative links in "index_html"
or the nice ":method" actions.

You know:

  *  relative links are better than absolute ones
     because you can relocate your site without changes

  *  working relative links (due to a correct "base" tag)
     are better than broken ones.


Dieter