[wp-hackers] Site Address during development

[Mike Little]

On 3 September 2010 09:52, ErisDS <erisds at gmail.com> wrote:

> I guess what's kinda irritating about this, is the "why", rather than the
> "how to solve".
> It just doesn't make sense why absolute URLs are embedded everywhere.
>
>
Gavin,
If you had followed this thread you would have already seen the answer:

You *have* to have absolute URLs in RSS feeds and other non-browser
situations, otherwise images, and especially podcasts would break, because
the content is not being consumed in the context of the site and a browser.

Mike
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