- 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>
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