Container / URLs mind melt puzzle

Quote from: markh at Oct 07, 2015, 03:12 PM

The alternative to use the base tag is setting link_tag_scheme to abs; that will make sure links are not relative (news.html) but absolute (/news.html), which will also resolve the problem. For Wayfinder, this also needs to be set with a &scheme=`abs` property as that doesn't inherit the system setting properly.

Ok great thanks Mark for the input

I've had difficulty in the past when using media sources to generate relative URLs for image paths etc. Does the system schema property control behaviour with those too? I presume not, as they are controlled completely and independently by the media source settings. In which case I suppose we're just talking about whether you choose to proceed with, or without <base> set to the site root URL.

I'm intrigued that it's in the support docs. Can we identify a specific case where Modx is dependent on <base>? I quite like the idea of not using it where I can get away with it, but I'd also like to have it on record where it's necessary, or where I might run into complications.

Putting a slash in front of URLs seems a more flexible approach to solving the relative URL problem, and I've read that <base> was never really designed for that purpose in the first place, or something like that. Allegedly we're abusing it a little.