Head First HTML with CSS

case solved, its all about relative and absolute
Five-Minute
Mystery
Solved
156 Chapter 4
The Case of Relatives and Absolutes
So, how did RadWebDesign flub up the demo? Well, because
they used URLs for their hrefs instead of relative links, they
had to edit and change every single link from
http://www.planetrobots.com to http://www.robotsrus.com. Can
you say error-prone? At 3:00 a.m., someone yawned
and accidently typed http://www.robutsru.com (and
as fate has it, that was the same link that the CEO
clicked on at the demo).
CorrectWebDesign, on the other hand, used relative
paths for all internal links. For example, the link from
the company’s mission statement to the products page,
, works whether the site is
called PlanetRobots or RobotsRUs. So, all CorrectWebDesign
had to do was update the company name on a few pages.
So RadWebDesign left the demo sleep-deprived and with a little
egg on their face, while CorrectWebDesign left the meeting
with even more business. But, the story doesn’t end there. It
turns out that RadWebDesign dropped by a little coffeehouse/
bookstore after the demo and, determined not to be outdone,
picked up a certain book on HTML & CSS. What happened?
Join us in a few chapters for “The Case of Brute Force versus
Style.”
Oops...
someone
forgot an “s”
on the end
of the name.