- From: Karl Ove Hufthammer <karl@huftis.org>
- Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 23:31:53 +0200
- To: www-html@w3.org
Chason Chaffin <cchaffin@infoserv.itis.uh.edu> wrote in news:14F874B2-8587-11D7-8D0A-003065E0687A@infoserv.itis.uh.edu: > I don't think an argument can be made that the character > references aren't at least somewhat useful for people who > handwrite their code, Yes, I agree, of course. They are *somewhat* useful, but not useful enough to warrant inclusion in XHTML 2, IMHO. > and additionally, they make it far > easier for a novice to read code. And it's even easier to read code with characters written directly, without using *either* entity or character references. Modern source-oriented XHTML editing tools *should* support ways to insert 'non-ASCII' character easily. > have you ever tried teaching an HTML beginner to type > numerical character references? I don't think they would have any more trouble looking up numerical characters in a table than looking up the corresponding named ones. But looking up entities or characters codes shouldn't really be necessary. -- Karl Ove Hufthammer http://blogg.huftis.org/
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