What is this technique?

[ITGL72]

I usually try to learn techniques I have not used before to help make my job easier. Kind of like when I started using CSS I started to look into it now use it with everything.

I recently saw a webpage where the links looked like this:

URL:
http://www.website.com/?page=category-a
http://www.website.com/?page=contact

and the code looked like:

(a href="/?page=category-a")page(/a)
(a href="/?page=contact")page(/a)

What is this technique called so I can research it and is it of any importance as far as making anything easier, better, etc?

Thanks for the help!

[wildwobby]

i dunno

[khalidali63]

go to w3c.org and read about the html tag
<base/>

you will find your answers..:-)

[ITGL72]

I must be missing it there.

[khalidali63]

Thats quite allright,here you go

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/links.html#edef-BASE