Electric Josh

Friday, April 05, 2002

So all the links on this site are borked. It has to do with the <base> tag. When I scrape the site off my local machine with wget all the pages end up with a base tag that screws up browsers. I've managed to override it so that most (but not all) browsers avoid choking on the links. This is annoying. Because browsers and HTML have historically been ad hoc efforts, there is no one universally accepted way for browsers to do things like interpret base tags; so making the browser do what you want becomes a programming problem. Lots of people have to work around this kind of thing; so many wasted hours. Geez. #