Reduce file duplication about html-build HOT 13 CLOSED

Make it so :)

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The problem with this, for images and link-fixup.js, is that they break local viewing of the multipage spec without a .htaccess-respecting server. That seems kind of sad.

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Can Wattsi be tweaked to generate the appropriate links? We could also fiddle with one of the Perl scripts, although my understanding is that Wattsi is supposed to replace them.

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I don't understand what that would accomplish? The links still exist either way; the duplicates still end up on the server.

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Oh you mean <a> links.

Yeah that would work, if we were OK with ../images/..... etc. Links like /images/... would kind of work; they would require mounting a HTTP server locally, but that's pretty reasonable. It's the specific requirement of Apache that is less so.

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What relies on .htaccess, exactly?

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I might have been skipping some steps.

If we only have images at top-level, then I'd assumed we'd install 301s for multipage/images/* to images/*. In which case to view the multipage spec with images locally, you'd need a server that understands .htaccess to implement the 301s.

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We'd also update the links. So you'd only need that if you have an old copy of multipage. We wouldn't want to have outgoing links that always redirect.

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Yeah, that sounds like a reasonable plan. Just requires knowledge of wattsi internals to implement :)

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Yeah, that sounds like a reasonable plan. Just requires knowledge of wattsi internals to implement :)

I’m happy to work on updating the wattsi source to implement it (once I’ve actually read and understand what the specific behavior/requirement is here)

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My plan is to wait for whatwg/wattsi#4 to land and then fix this using path-absolute URLs.

@sideshowbarker could then create a follow-up fix to Wattsi if desired that rewrites all path-absolute URLs to path-relative URLs for both / and /multipage/ so you don't need to have them in root.

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whatwg/html#463 addresses images and entities.json. I think link-fixup.js would require changes to wattsi. If we want to keep local viewing working @sideshowbarker would have to update wattsi to do URL rewriting similar to what was removed in whatwg/wattsi#4 (dropping the leading "/" for single and adding leading ".." for multipage I suppose).

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Removing link-fixup.js would require adding a "/" to https://github.com/whatwg/wattsi/blob/master/src/wattsi.pas#L1637 and https://github.com/whatwg/html/blob/master/link-fixup.js#L10.

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