Remove <base href> and emit absolute hrefs instead #2089
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Markdown will not be able to use
<base href>
; also, some hosting strategies might not favor its use. Instead we can make model elements have an absolute href by prefixing them with a/
.The major caveat is that the generated docs now must be served from the docs output directory, otherwise those absolute hrefs won't work. This will break clients that place generated docs in a subdirectoy of their served pages, whereas that previously worked fine.
#1479