[thelist] rel="bookmark" - should the links be relative?

mike karthauser mikek at brightstorm.co.uk
Wed Oct 1 09:46:39 CDT 2003


on 1/10/03 3:01 pm, Dunstan Orchard at dunstan at 1976design.com wrote:

> Is it wrong to do this:
> 
> <a href="http://www.1976design.com/blog/archive/2003/09/" rel="bookmark"
> title="A permalink for September 2003">September</a>
> 
> Should the url be relative?
> E.g.:
> 
> <a href="/blog/archive/2003/09/" rel="bookmark" title="A permalink for
> September
> 2003">September</a>

Makes little difference. I could be slightly quicker to have relative urls
as you need not query the name servers to find you page. We are talking
milliseconds though.

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