On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Keenan, Alistair wrote: > I also noticed the same problem with the validator and querystrings trying > to validate some html 4.01 code. (I don't know what you mean by "same problem". It appears you're replying to a message, but I don't know what one.) > Does this mean that a querystring of the form > > ?a=b&c=d > > is valid html 4.01 but > > ?a=b&c=d > > isn't? If you were writing "AT&T" in HTML, you would use "AT&T". The same principle applies when including a URI in HTML. So if your URI contains "?a=b&c=d", this would be written in HTML as "?a=b&c=d". > I have always believed that the second format was the correct one (and > Liam's reply implies that it is) (I don't know what reply you're referring to.) > - why rely on the browser correctly > translating the html escape sequence for "&"??? Why not? Browsers know about &. -- Liam QuinnReceived on Tuesday, 30 July 2002 13:06:29 UTC
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