Use of site: linking with

Team

Having discovered how useful the href="site: construction is (with site.xml resolving the symbolic to physical mapping), I tried it with a link to an image as well - thinking that if I could refer to a file or another HTML document using this position-independent format then it would be useful for links to images as well.

It didn't seem to work.

I haven't done much investigation, but:

1    Should I expect <figure src="site:name_of_image /> links to work? 

2    If not, would this be worth considering for the future? I grant you I'm rather naive, but maybe there isn't much difference to how "href=" and "src=" are processed?src=

Charles

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Re: Use of site: linking with

Posted by Dave Brondsema <da...@brondsema.net>.

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Charles Palmer wrote:
> Team
>  
> Having discovered how useful the href="site: construction is (with 
> site.xml resolving the symbolic to physical mapping), I tried it with a 
> link to an image as well - thinking that if I could refer to a file or 
> another HTML document using this position-independent format then it 
> would be useful for links to images as well.
>  
> It didn't seem to work.
>  
> I haven't done much investigation, but:
>  
> 1    Should I expect <figure src="site:name_of_image /> links to work? 
>  

No.  I'm pretty sure it's href only.

> 2    If not, would this be worth considering for the future? I grant you 
> I'm rather naive, but maybe there isn't much difference to how "href=" 
> and "src=" are processed?src=
>  

Yes, good idea.

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