- From: Lloyd Wood <L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 21:40:09 +0100 (BST)
- To: Brian Gilkison <gilkison@one.net>
- cc: www-validator@w3.org
On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Brian Gilkison wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Lloyd Wood wrote: > >In theory. Practice can be a different thing. > > > >http://www.mg.co.za/mg/m&e/archive.htm > > > >Okay, yes, that's an ampersand in the URL and directory name, and > >they're running Apache 1.3.4 (unix). > > > >What I'd dearly like to know is why: > > > >http://www.mg.co.za/mg/m&e/archive.htm > > > >doesn't work. Yes, it's probably due to Netscape 4.5 not parsing & > >correctly... > > Well, probably because there is no directory with a name of "m&e" at > that location, while there is one named "m&e"... URLs that are typed > into your browser's location bar are not CDATA, and therefore not open to > interpretation/parsing since 'amazon' in the location bar gets parsed as http://www.amazon.com/ and 'gnu' gets parsed as http://www.gnu.org/ in popular browsers, it strikes me that handling CDATA correctly in the location bar to ease copying/pasting between mixed html and text environments is probably a Good Idea. And rather less processing overhead than the dns matches mentioned. L. wondering if ˜ has already appeared in some printed article's list of recommended online links. > -- it is when you plan to use "&" in-between <HTML> > and </HTML> that you need to use "&" for valid HTML... > > Brian > > > Brian Gilkison | http://w3.one.net/~gilkison/ < > > gilkison@one.net | finger for PGP Public key < > > < > > Quantum Mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of... < > > <L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk>PGP<http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/>
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