- From: Russell Steven Shawn O'Connor <roconnor@wronski.math.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 10:52:51 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>
- cc: www-html@w3.org
On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, Walter Ian Kaye wrote:
> So then it's like in programming languages where you'd put a backslash
> in front of a metacharacter? OK, but it's just too bad this subject was
> not hashed out sufficiently in 1993, because a URL must work in all
> existing browsers, and an & in a URL clearly does not. It is thus
> too late to change the browsers for SGML conformance, and I suggest that
> HTML specify that attribute values for URIs should allow the following:
>
> <A HREF="/form.cgi?foo=bar&foo2=bar2">
>
> and *not* consider &foo2 as an entity error.
It wasn't too late for Netscape to fix ommiteting quote error that they
had. Also, Lynx handles the & correctly. (Ahhh, Lynx, almost the
perfect web browser.) Plus making that change means that I can't grab an
off the shelf SGML parser to make my web browser.
--
Russell O'Connor | roconnor@uwaterloo.ca
<http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/%7Eroconnor/>
"And truth irreversibly destroys the meaning of its own message"
-- Anindita Dutta, "The Paradox of Truth, the Truth of Entropy"
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