- From: Lloyd Wood <L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 12:25:29 +0100 (BST)
- To: Jukka.Korpela@hut.fi
- cc: www-validator@w3.org, gerald@w3.org
Thanks for all this; fills in a lot of blanks, but: On Thu, 10 Jun 1999 Jukka.Korpela@hut.fi wrote: > > The effect of widespread use of tilde (~) and ampersand (&) on URLs > > sans escapement is a lost cause as far as validation is concerned. > > The necessity of "escaping" ampersands in attribute values has > _gained_ and is gaining importance. The more entities there are, > the greater the risk of having &something processed in a way you > really did not mean. > > The tilde never was an issue in validation. Validators do not > check URLs in any way, since to them, a URL is just CDATA. Yet a URL with form state includes & between attribute values, gets checked and gets complained about by the validator, which is pretty much where we came in. I don't see why & in CDATA can't simply be excepted... cheers, L. > (That said, > despite the fact that RFC 2396 relaxed the encoding requirements, > it still is, as it always was, safest to encode ~ in a URL as %7e. > In particular, trying to use the tilde in printed media is a lost cause, > and who can predict which URLs get printed?) > > -- > Yucca, http://www.hut.fi/u/jkorpela/ or http://yucca.hut.fi/yucca.html <L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk>PGP<http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/>
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