Re: Any downside to root-relative paths?

On 2007-10-10, Lars Eighner wrote:

Aside from the deaths of a few extra electrons to spell out the whole root
relative path, is there any down side? It seems to me that theoretically it
shouldn't make any difference, and it would make it much easier to slap
modualar blocks of markup into page frameworks, which may change and so
forth. And the few extra bytes, which even for a fairly large site would
not amount to as many bytes as are in a fairly small low-res image, should
not make much difference to the server. So my main concern is whether there
is some hidden performance hit on the browser end such as sometimes occur in
anti-social browsers (Hi, IE!)?

I now use relative paths to all pages (I haven't yet converted all
my older pages). This allows me to develop and view the site on my
local machine and then copy new or changed files to the real site.

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