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the absolute location of a resource, authors should use relative URIs.
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Relative URIs (as defined in [[!URI]]) are resolved to full URIs
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using a base URI. RFC 3986, section 3, defines the normative
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- algorithm for this process. For CSS style sheets, the base URI is that
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- of the style sheet, not that of the source document.
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+ algorithm for this process.
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+ For CSS style sheets, the base URI is that of the style sheet itself,
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+ which is not necessarily that of the source document.
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+ Style sheets embedded within a document must use
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+ the base URL associated with their container.
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< p > When a < i > <url> </ i > appears in the computed value of a property,
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it is resolved to an absolute URL, as described in the preceding
@@ -1852,6 +1855,7 @@ <h2 class="no-num" id="changes">Changes</h2>
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< li > Relaxed unnecessary restrictions on < var > <custom-ident> </ var > .
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Require specs referencing it to be clear about excluded keywords,
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because the new rule isn't as simple.
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+ < li > Clarified relative URL resolution for embedded style sheets.
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</ ul >
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< p > Changes since the < a href ="http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-css3-values-20120828/ "> 28 August 2012 Candidate Recommendation</ a > are:
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