- From: Křištof Želechovski <giecrilj@stegny.2a.pl>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 11:51:53 +0200
Aside: I know that it can be changed but "iuml" is a very unfortunate name for "i tr?ma". How about deprecating "iuml" in favor of "itrema"? Chris -----Original Message----- From: whatwg-bounces@lists.whatwg.org [mailto:whatwg-bounces at lists.whatwg.org] On Behalf Of Simon Pieters Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 8:49 AM To: Ian Hickson; Oistein E. Andersen Cc: whatwg at whatwg.org Subject: Re: [whatwg] Entity parsing On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 03:05:05 +0200, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote: > On Sun, 5 Nov 2006, ?istein E. Andersen wrote: >> >> From section 9.2.3.1. Tokenising entities: >> > For some entities, UAs require a semicolon, for others they don't. >> >> This applies to IE. >> >> FWIW, the entities not requiring a semicolon are the ones encoding >> Latin-1 characters, the other HTML 3.2 entities (&, > and <), as >> well as " and the uppercase variants (&, ©, >, <, " >> and ®). [...] > > I've defined the parsing and conformance requirements in a way that > matches IE. As a side-effect, this has made things like "naïve" > actually conforming. I don't know if we want this. Firefox, Opera and Safari treat "naïve" as equivalent to "na&iumlve". So for compat with them, the semicolon should be made required. -- Simon Pieters
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