Re: XHTML character entity support

On Oct 31, 2009, at 8:46 PM, Shelley Powers wrote:

>
> I've not seen good, technical reasons for this move. In this thread,
> I've read that browser companies have enabled named entity handing
> because of compatibility bugs, even though the bugs were, technically,
> invalid. I've read that since this is what has happened in the past,
> seemingly we'll have to support it in the future. And lastly, since
> some browsers have implemented this approach, HTML5 should make it all
> OK.

I pretty much agree with your summary. Except that I think what you  
described *is* a good technical reason for making a change to the spec.

Regards,
Maciej

Received on Sunday, 1 November 2009 03:54:30 UTC