- From: Peter Flynn <pflynn@curia.ucc.ie>
- Date: 20 Sep 1996 01:57:03 +0100
- To: gnu@toad.com
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
[refreshing my screen to make sure I read it right this time :-]
When doing HTML anchors (links), the closing ">" on the <A HREF...>
element needs to be in contact with the rest of it:
<A HREF="/pub/join/index.html">Join EFF today</A>!
not:
<A HREF="/pub/join/index.html"
>Join EFF today</A>!
Netscape is smart enough to parse the 2nd example, but many other
browsers aren't.
Netscape is correct in this case. There's nothing wrong with the whitespace.
I think this is incorrect; I hope the spec allows arbitrary white-space
inside the < ... > delimiters. But, it's sad but true, I can't find
a spec for this.
Just run any decent parser over an example file. It is unfortunate
that the OSI charges for standards generated largely from public money.
///Peter
Received on Thursday, 19 September 1996 20:55:36 UTC