- From: Alan C. Baird <ia@apc.net>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 13:30:13 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-validator@w3.org
- CC: correia@barebones.com
Hi Jim! >>> Thu, 29 Jun 2000 13:01:04 -0400 <correia@barebones.com> >>> > > On 11:49 AM 6/29/00 "Alan C. Baird" <ia@apc.net> wrote: > > > 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"! > > 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. Thanks for your kind advice, but some versions of Netscape 3 can't handle the second link correctly, even when it's placed in a web page... and a significant percentage of my target market uses these browsers. I guess I should just learn to live without a useful validator! Alan ia@apc.net [not a member of this list]
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