- From: Lloyd Wood <l.wood@eim.surrey.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 17:09:04 +0100 (BST)
- To: Maarten de Boer <mdeboer@iua.upf.es>
- cc: liam@htmlhelp.com, <www-validator@w3.org>, <gerald@w3.org>, <sogm@kmt.hku.nl>, <ot@w3.mag.keio.ac.jp>
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Maarten de Boer wrote: > I understand that this means that the & is a reserved character in URI's > and that it's "usage within the URI component is limited to their reserved > purpose.", which in the case of the & is seperating parameters, and not > starting an entity! > > I hope you will agree with me on the matter (also because I am about to > bet a huge amount of beer on it with a friend on mine how seems to disagree) > or explain to me how I am interpreting the RFC incorrectly. Please answer > me offlist - I am not subscribed. It's all marca and mccool's fault for picking & as the separator when designing the cgi forms interface, rather than something safer like :. Don't get me started on that whole img/object thing, either. OTOH, if browsers had been written by people who actually read, understood and insisted on implementing SGML parsing rules, we'd still be waiting for a functional Mosaic to be released. L. <http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/><L.Wood@ee.surrey.ac.uk>
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