Re: [TWiki-Dev] [SVN] r8087 - twiki/branches/DEVELOP/data/TWiki

[Crawford C. <cc...@c-...>]

Walter Mundt wrote:

>Crawford Currie wrote:
>  
>
>>>link. A little known fact: Ampersands need to be escaped in
>>>hrefs, e.g. mailto:?subject=TopiName&body=http://domain/
>>>      
>>>
>>No they don't. The href parameter is defined
>>(http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/dtds.html#dtdentry_xhtml1-strict.dtd_URI)
>>as taking a URI parameter as per RFC 2396, by both HTML 4.0 and XHTML
>>1.0. There is no requirement to escape ampersands.
>>
>>It's possible that some brain-dead mail tools may barf on an unescaped
>>ampersand; do you have one of those?
>>    
>>
Interesting; I changed it to a semicolon (which should be synonymous)
and Thunderbird fails to parse the URI. :-(

C.