Base Tag relative or absolute?

[Lozbo 0]

Ive read the w3schools tag description for <base> and i fount that it must be written in this format:

<base href="http://http://www.mysite.trap18.com/img/; />

So what im asking is if this href must be absolute or can it be relative like:

<base href="/img/" />

As i did not find anything about it on w three skulls nor in google (yet i only visited a few links). Absolute links slow down the retrieving of the info right?Thanks! -10730

[SystemWisdom 0]

I do believe they allow relative linking, and I don't think that absolute links are any slower, on the contrary, I would assume they are faster, given the fact that relative links must be implicitly converted to an absolute link..

[Lozbo 0]

Not that i assume but ive read dont remember where something about it, that the absolute url (dns name or site ip) will make slower the retrieving info. What i assume on it is that as the site is already in that when trying a different domain it must call again the http headers or something like that (im not sure about this) like reloading it.And as of the base tag, i found that the god damn IE6 messing with every file when declaring this:

<base href="/folder/next_folder/" />

Instead of this:

<base href="http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/; />

The first case made all routes of my files missing like if IE was searching i dont know where else something like this:

<img src="img/ico.gif" />

I couldnt find what was it and as soon as i change to the second case it fixed. Im not against microsoft, but dammit, if a group of people working in open source can keep up, why cant a transnational do so?-10730