Re: Entities in ALT

David J Woolley wrote:
> >From the HTML 4.0 Spec:
> 
> <!ENTITY % Text "CDATA">
> ...
> alt %Text; #REQUIRED -- short description --
> 
> Entities are interpreted in CDATA, so must be interpreted in ALT.
> 
> This is the sort of area where the lazy parsers in most GUI browsers
> are likely to fail to follow the SGML rules properly.  Entities in
> href is another problem area with such implementations.
> 
> Amaya, Lynx, Netscape (4.05) and IE4 (4.01) display this correctly,
> but Amaya seems to fail to encode when it saves (v1.3 Win32).
Is this problem with Amaya going to be fixed?

Netscape (4.05 and 4.5) really trash the files when they save them.
Here is an example of Netscape 4.5 saving the same file:
http://www.neta.com/~cherry/saindex2.html

Jim FitzSimons
Mailto:cherry@neta.com

Received on Thursday, 3 December 1998 09:06:10 UTC