- From: Jim Correia <correia@barebones.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 13:01:04 -0400
- To: www-validator@w3.org
- cc: "Alan C. Baird" <ia@apc.net>
On 11:49 AM 6/29/00 "Alan C. Baird" <ia@apc.net> wrote:
> Of course. For example:
>
> >
http://www.xlibris.com/XL/container.asp?element=display.asp&show=b&sku=784
>
> displays my book, "9TimeZones.com" - while the proposed remedy:
>
> >
http://www.xlibris.com/XL/container.asp?element=display.asp&show=b&sku=784
>
> shows a book called "The Seeker"! While this difference may not occur
> in your browser, it does happen for 80% of my business associates, and
> for 100% of the browsers in the Glendale Public Library system.
But how are you using the second form? If you paste it into the
location field of the browser *IT WILL NOT WORK*.
But if you put it as the attribute value of an a tag, the only place
where you need to entity encode the &, it should work in all modern
browsers.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled</title>
</head>
<body>
<a
href="http://www.xlibris.com/XL/container.asp?element=display.asp&show=b&sku=784">
book
</a>
</body>
</html>
What browser, version, and platform is this failing on?
--
Jim Correia Bare Bones Software, Inc.
correia@barebones.com <http://web.barebones.com>
Received on Thursday, 29 June 2000 13:01:06 UTC