document.implementation.createHTMLDocument("")-created documents interpret the href property of anchor elements different in different browsers, e.g. in Chrome returning an empty string. This affects our jQuery.parseHTML. The createHTMLDocument usage has been backed out on 1.12-stable & 2.2-stable but we try to may make it work for 3.0.

In #2941 (comment) @gibson042 suggested to create a <base> element, setting it to the base of the current document.

The original issue: 2941