- From: <BruceLeban@akimbo.com>
- Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 01:21:33 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-html@w3.org
>From: msftrncs@htcnet.com (Carl Morris)
>The problem is that who ever devised enities didn't stop to think about
>backwards support or forwards support, what ever. An enity should have
>been designated as "&name;" only, no options. It then should have been
>documented that you don't support "name" enity, skip it!
Well it's defined as precisely the opposite. If you don't support an
entity, display the entity name directly. Of course a better syntax or
displaying it differently would be useful. E.g., I think a normal user
might find
2(pi)r or 2{pi}r or 2[pi]r
more readable than
2πr
although that is certainly better than
2r
if we just ignored the entity!
The real problem is that there's no ALT attribute for entities. Something
like this would be nice:
<ENTITY NAME="pi" ALT="(pi)">
<ENTITY NAME="shy" ALT="">
which would define the alt text for these two entities if the browser
doesn't support them and do nothing if the browser does.
--- Bruce Leban
Akimbo Systems
http://www.akimbo.com/globetrotter
Publish on the web without learning HTML! (Really.)
Received on Sunday, 13 April 1997 01:21:35 UTC