Re: HTML - i18n / NCR & charsets from Peter Flynn on 1996-12-08 (www-html@w3.org from December 1996)

From: Peter Flynn <pflynn@curia.ucc.ie>
Date: 08 Dec 1996 20:51:34 +0000 (GMT)
To: connolly@w3.org
Cc: Dirk.vanGulik@jrc.it, www-html@w3.org, dirkx@elec.jrc.it
Message-id: <199612082051.UAA14968@curia.ucc.ie>

   >In the actual world people have taken to using so called Numerical
   >Glyph/Character references within their HTML documents, such as &#160; 
   >which are simply indexes into the 'defined' character set.

The only reason I can see for this is that after all this time, the
browser makers are _still_ unwilling to implement the proper names.

Is there some arcane judgment going on here, or do they not believe
that people would rather use mnemonics instead of NCRs? Or are they
just lazy?

///Peter

Received on Sunday, 8 December 1996 15:51:51 UTC