[Zope3-dev] Relative links

Chris Withers chrisw@nipltd.com
Tue, 26 Mar 2002 15:47:17 +0000


Guido van Rossum wrote:
> 
> Yes, but I couldn't possibly expect the other PSF board members to
> spend much time studying them.  The one person that tried had a real
> hard time creating a new folder and placing some static documents in
> it with some links between them.  The problem in this particular case
> was that Zope's rules for using relative links are different than for
> sites built out of regular HTML using Apache.

Yup, a big beef of mine from Zope 2, sadly it looks like that damn BASE HREF="" is here to
stay ;-)

> Another problem was Wiki permissions -- even with the help of Ken
> Manheimer I couldn't figure out how to set up a Wiki the way I wanted
> it (sorry, I've forgotten the details).

*wry grinz* Security is another 'interesting' area. I'm all for copying how LDAP, Active
Directory or some other common standard does it and be done with it.

Chris