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   Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 13-Jul-2025 13:50:02 JST Blurry Moon

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   • feld
   • Eric K3FNB (they/them)
   @feld @k3fnb it probably is from when most web pages were static documents so you could just stick this in every page using sed and move on with your life
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Sunday, 13-Jul-2025 13:50:03 JST feld

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     • Eric K3FNB (they/them)
     @k3fnb hmmm but if you want that to work automatically for a project you'd have to template the href value so why not just template the base path for all the links?
     
     I'm sure it has a use but it still seems silly to me
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     Eric K3FNB (they/them) (k3fnb@mastodon.radio)'s status on Sunday, 13-Jul-2025 13:50:05 JST Eric K3FNB (they/them)

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     • feld

     @feld it exists to make moving a page to a different root easier.

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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Sunday, 13-Jul-2025 13:50:06 JST feld
     wow new HTML tag I've never seen before --
     
     <base href="/foo/">
     
     It sets the base path for relative URLs after it
     
     like wtf? why does this exist?