Justin RogersGames, .NET, Performance, and More!Implied tags in the IE HTML parser and how that can be interesting.- August 31, 2005 I recently made the verbal error of saying that for the new BASE element changes in IE 7 you had to put your tag inside the HEAD element. Well, someone pointed out to me rather quickly that on Firefox you could just have a bare TITLE and BASE followed by some body content and away you go the page would validate and parse properly. Well, we do the same thing in IE, and it is called implied tags in HTML. There are some gotchas though. First, I'll start with the trick... What in the heck is IE...http://weblogs.asp.net/justin_rogers/archive/2005/08/30/424085.aspx Important changes to the BASE element for IE 7- August 31, 2005 Looks like my post went live over on the IETB regarding changes we made to the BASE element in IE 7. Previously the BASE element had some issues, primarily by design, that made certain actions within the guts of IE very easy to do, but polluted the exposed object model and overall tree hiearchy. Well, it was time to fix that. If you are interested in how we fixed it, go check out my entry All your <base> are belong to us. There have been some comments on the post so I'll try to cover them.http://weblogs.asp.net/justin_rogers/archive/2005/08/30/424084.aspx |