[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #6599: Inpage URLs can be realtive instead of being always absolute.

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#6599: Inpage URLs can be realtive instead of being always absolute.
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 Reporter:  hakre            |        Owner:  anonymous     
     Type:  feature request  |       Status:  closed        
 Priority:  normal           |    Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  General          |      Version:  2.7           
 Severity:  normal           |   Resolution:  invalid       
 Keywords:                   |  
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Comment(by Otto42):

 Replying to [comment:9 hakre]:
 > Well, I do not like to have that much focus on the Noob argument but
 more in the arguments for using realtive links:
 >
 > - There is actually no argument for or against realative vs. absolute.

 False, there are situations where absolute links make more sense. Like the
 one I'm describing now, for example.

 > - All links are absolute at least for a user using a website.

 That doesn't make any sense. A link is either relative or absolute. It
 makes no difference who the user is.

 > - The website itself can therefore provide relative links.
 > - There is no need to have absolute links (only) in the output from
 server-side.
 > - There is _absolutely_ no need to have absolute links hardcoded in
 database data. Infact, this leads to problems (as documented).

 So, you want to make all links in posts dynamic in some way, so that
 instead of having the link in the post itself (as in HTML), you have
 something else and then replace it with the relative link as the post is
 displayed?

 Because I have to vote a big -1000000 to that idea. The idea that the post
 can be altered on display is one thing, but to needlessly abstract it just
 for the sake of providing relative links instead of absolute ones, when
 absolute ones work perfectly fine, strikes me as a bit too much. It's like
 swatting a fly with an AK-47.

 > - Because there is no need that there must be absolute links in the
 output, it is more wise to handle relative URIs in (database) data to
 convert them to links useable to (the current and often changing) Blog
 configuration.

 Why are relative links preferred? I can think of no sensible reason to
 care whether they're absolute or relative, as long as the user sees the
 bloody page in the end. The only problem with them is that it makes moving
 the blog URLs slightly more difficult, but that's extremely minor by
 comparison to abstracting out the entire post content structure in order
 to make all links dynamically generated.

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