Why can't I use relative URLs with IE7?

Question

I\'ve been Googling for a while and can\'t seem to find an answer to this question. My problem is as follows:

For my jquery, I need my links to be relative rather th

Answer 1

What I do is grab the baseUrl at init, like:

var baseUrl = window.location.href.substring(0, window.location.href.lastIndexOf("/") + 1);

... and then in my URL handler, strip the baseUrl:

var url = $(this).attr("href").replace(baseUrl, "");

Also you can check if the href is "normalized" using .support():

$.support.hrefNormalized

(returns true if the browser makes no modifications when grabbing an href value, so it's currently false in IE.)