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    <p>I am using extjs4 to build a webapp that resides within drupal.<br> Many of my ajax calls are to menu items in a module within drupal.<br> The images my css directs to sometimes reside within my extjs folder, and sometimes in drupal.</p> <p>A coworker insists that relative paths that use '../dir_a/' are bad design, and are prone to risks.</p> <p>Is this correct? Is there another way?</p> <p>My folder structure:</p> <pre><code>- drupal - v2 (extjs home folder) - css - extjs - sites - mySite - modules - webApp </code></pre> <p>My css files contain calls like these:</p> <pre><code>.x-action-col-cell img.restart-test-icon { background-image: url(../extjs/examples/sandbox/images/gears.png); } </code></pre> <p>My applications has calls like these:</p> <pre><code>Ext.Ajax.request({ url: '../webapp/tests/create/', method: 'Post' }); </code></pre> <p><strong>Edit:</strong> Commenters have asked for clarification. The coworker's two main issue with this are:<br> 1. "If the server side code will generate an address like <code>/a/b/c</code> without a trailing <code>/</code> you might have a situation where you get <code>/a/b/c../d</code>"<br> <em>True? This sounds more like a server side problem.</em><br> 2. "Have you seen anyone else using it?"<br> <em>Which in my opinion is a very poor way to decide anything.</em><br> But I went ahead and tested some JS intensive sites (gmail, aws), using firebug and found no use of <code>../</code> in their JS or CSS.<br> Can anyone help me back up my claim that it's perfectly OK?</p>
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    1. COask your coworker which risks does he refer to
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    2. CORelative paths are most commonly used in CSS files whereas within actualy web pages/apps I'd suggest that absolute paths are probably more commonplace - that's certainly how I've always went about things - but each to their own.
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    3. COIt's OK, but I think that using relative URLs to the root is better because it's easy to make a mistake if you use `../`. For example, suppose you want to go 5 directories up but you use only four `../`.
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