HTML neepery

[ellarien]

I wonder how many people know this.

IE will handle absolute URLs and CSS when rendering HTML from a local disk.

Mozilla-based browsers won't, as far as I can tell. I discovered this last summer, in the course of doing a complicated data CD layout on a tight deadline.

I have no idea whether the HTML standards even have anything to say about this kind of thing.

(On the anti-Microsoft side, after I installed XP SP2 my IE went through a phase of giving me grief about using the Acrobat plugin on local files. I'm not entirely sure whether this has been fixed globally in more recent patches, or whether I somehow managed to find the right overrides on this machine.)


Yes, I'm weird; I code HTML with my fingernails by hand, using emacs or even notepad as my editor. Occasionally I used to cheat and use Word to set up the skeleton of a complicated table. Then I found out how to use imagemaps instead. Defining the regions by hand, of course.