: the "_absolute" key is not supported by underlying services probably this happened because of multitude of refactorings in past The original intent of _absolute parameter was to simply append specified path to a base URL bypassing any kind of processing. For example, normally you would use {{view url="css/styles.css"}} directive which would automatically resolve into something like http://example.com/pub/static/area/theme/en_US/css/styles.css But with _absolute, the expected behavior is this: {{view url="favicon.ico" _absolute=true}} should resolve into something like http://example.com/favicon.ico