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The Case of Relatives and Absolutes
So, how did RadWebDesign flub up the demo? Well,
because they used URLs for their
href
s 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 accidentally typed
http://www.robotsru.com
(and as fate has it,
that was the same link that the CEO clicked on at
the demo).
Five-Minute
Mystery
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,
<a href="../products.html">
, works whether
the site is called PlanetRobots or RobotsRUs. So, all
CorrectWebDesign had to do was update the company
name on a few pages.
Solved
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 and
CSS. What happened? Join us in a few chapters for “The
Case of Brute Force Versus Style.”
