Take the 2-minute tour ×  our office just got this new guy with
lots of experience and kept insisting that we stop using
absolute paths like:   when pointing to a path of our image when
it resides next to the file that calls it say we could have just
used:   but the reason why we used absolute paths before was to
prevent deadlinks when we put another page in another directory,
instead of explicitly typing  "../../" OR "./"  so is there
really a difference when using them? he said that each absolute
urls is a separate request to the server.. but i've been using
this method ever since and i can safely assure an expected fast
response time, can anyone enlighten me?  share|improve this
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Everything is a separate http request to the server. Relative or
absolute it does not matter.  Of course, if the absolute url
points to the same website but on a different host, then this
may speed up things because it breaks the 2 concurrent http
requests limit. e.g yo