While seeing "index.html" (or "index.ANYTHING") makes me cringe, I have some sympathy for the developers who do this. Let's say I have an old-school, all-stati

While seeing "index.html" (or "index.ANYTHING") makes me cringe, I have some sympathy for the developers who do this. Let's say I have an old-school, all-static site with pages at http://example.com/x/index.html http://example.com/x/index.html and http://example.com/x/about.html http://example.com/x/about.html. I would like to make a link to the "index" page from the "about" page. What are my choices? <a href="/x/"> will work, but will break when someone decides to move "/x" to "/y". <a href="."> will work from the server, which does an internal redirect, but not on the static version on my local drive I'm going to demo to my boss. (I also have a hunch a significant number of developers aren't aware of "." and don't know this is an option.) So we end up with <a href="index.html"> for better or worse.