[TAPESTRY-935] Improve BASE tag for IE

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 4.0.2, 4.0.1, 4.0
• Fix Version/s: 4.1.1
• Component/s: Framework
• Environment: IE 6
• Assignee: Andreas Andreou
• Reporter: Andreas Andreou
• Created: 04/May/06 18:18
• Updated: 09/May/06 01:08
• Resolved: 09/May/06 01:08

Description

IE is very sensitive to the way the BASE tag is written. This can affect correct rendering of CSS rules + javascript execution.
See http://tacoscomponents.jot.com/BugReporter/Bug86 , http://drupal.org/node/44934 , http://mg.to/2006/04/29/your-body-is-in-your-head for more.

In a word, IE expects the BASE tag to be rendered as <base href='...'></base> .
We currently render it as <base href='...'/>

The cross-browser, XHTML + HTML4 compliant solution would render:
<base href='...'/><!-[if IE]></base><![endif]->