- From: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>
- Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 00:04:52 -0700
- To: www-html@w3.org
At 12:01a -0400 07/11/97, Jim Wise wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, Walter Ian Kaye wrote:
>
> > > Then Eudora is broken. If you wanted Test&body you would write
> > > <A HREF="mailto:boo@best.com?subject=Test%26body"> (I think %26 is
right)
> >
> > Eudora is not broken. Why should an email app give a hoot about SGML
> > entities? It does not apply. Perhaps SGML is broken...
>
> This is correct. The problem is not that URL's cannot contain
> ampersands -- this is a perfectly valid method to pass URL's to
> eudora from applications other than HTML. The point is that when
> embedding URLs in HTML, we need to do so in a way which is valid HTML
> as well as a valid URL.
Guess I'll have to update my "mailto maker" program just a bit... :)
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Received on Sunday, 13 July 1997 03:05:45 UTC