Those two examples you gave have different meanings.
Netscape would have terrible complaints if paths like /images/image.gif didn't work.
Perhaps you had ../path/image.gif but the relativity was incorrect?...or was it something I did?
Netscape would have terrible complaints if paths like /images/image.gif didn't work.
Perhaps you had ../path/image.gif but the relativity was incorrect?...or was it something I did?