- From: Fred Bone <Fred.Bone@dial.pipex.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 15:55:43 -0000
- To: html-tidy@w3.org
On 24 Jan 2003 at 7:04, Michael Jennings wrote: > > How do I get HTML Tidy to stop changing web addresses (URI/URL)? > > Fix-URI does not work: > http://tidy.sourceforge.net/docs/quickref.html#fix-uri > > It is NEVER correct to change a web address. That's because a web site > designer can use any string of characters to express a method of > accessing a database, for example. I agree they shouldn't use weird > URIs, but they do, and Tidy ruins them, so that links become non-functional. Certain characters have to be encoded within HTML, and that's what Tidy is doing for you. They do not become non-functional (assuming they were valid in the first place), because the encoding is reversible and is reversed by the browser.
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