- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 12:10:51 +1000
- To: David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
- CC: www-html@w3.org
David Woolley wrote: > Lachlan Hunt wrote: >> In reality, that's not going to happen. One of the design principles >> for the new HTMLWG is Don't Break the Web. Introducing new entity >> references, or any new feature for that matter, that has a significant > > You haven't covered backward compatibility. In what way exactly? > A recent example on the Lynx mailing list > <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lynx-dev/2007-03/msg00066.html> I'm not exactly sure what that post has to do with entity references. > resulted from someone using an entity known to Lynx but not to > the popular browsers (∥). ∥ was not mentioned anywhere in that email, but if Lynx supports entity references that are not defined in HTML4, and not supported by any other browser either, that's a bug in Lynx. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/
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