RE: BASE HREF question

by "tim booker" <timbooker(at)lineone.net>

Date:	Sun, 25 Jun 2000 13:27:41 +0100
To:	"'Markkanen, Timo ELP:EX'" <Timo.Markkanen(at)gems5.gov.bc.ca>, "'HWG Techniques'" <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
In-Reply-To:	bc
	todo: View Thread, Original

Hello.

Netscape tends to automatically insert the <base> tag into the top of some
documents.  The page in question has probably got some dynamic JavaScript
stuff somewhere.  Don't worry about it.

Tim


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
> [mailto:owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org]On Behalf Of Markkanen,
> Timo ELP:EX
> Sent: 23 June 2000 18:51
> To: 'HWG Techniques'
> Subject: BASE HREF question
>
>
> I'm stumped. When I look at the source of this particular page (
> http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/wat/aquifers/index.html )in Netscape
> (4.7), I get
> the following:
>
> <BASE HREF="http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/wat/aquifers/">
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"
>             "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
> <HTML>
> <HEAD><TITLE>Aquifers of British Columbia</TITLE>
>
> The Title in the source window says:
> wysiwyg://15/http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/wat/aquifers/index.html
> and the number
> gets  higher with each new viewing. Some other sections show
> it as well but
> not all.
>
>
> In IE4 the BASE HREF reference doesn't show up. I read this
> reference must
> be within the HEAD section but I can't figure out why it's
> showing up at all
> because it's not written in the page. Is this affecting the
> search engines,
> spiders or robots etc?
> Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
>
> Timo Markkanen
> Groundwater Section and Web Enhancement Project
> Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks (250-387-9459)
> Member of the HTML Writers Guild (http://www.hwg.org)
> timo.markkanen(at)gems5.gov.bc.ca
>
>

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