Re: [Mantisbt-dev] RE: Mantisbt-dev digest, Vol 1 #37 - 3 msgs

[Jeroen L. <jl...@ca...>]

At 15:15 30-5-2002 -0400, David Ethell wrote:
> > I've confirmed with someone in #web as well as Rasmus that
> > the & method is more technically correct.  Try something
> > like this: index.php?id=0&copy
>
>We have been using &amp for over a year now in our projects because our
>pages won't pass the html validator at htmlhelp.org if we don't. At
>first I didn't know why it was a big deal, but what Ken is saying makes
>perfect sense. It makes the readability of the html code suffer a bit,
>but it's probably better to pass html spec.

There's also one at validator.w3.org, the 'official' one.

'&' is one of the many characters that need to be placed as HTML entities 
throughout the HTML file (including in URLs), simply because HTML entities 
start with & :)

Most browsers allow &, but it might cause problems.

This just FYI,

Jeroen Latour

P.S. Unless anyone objects, I'll go and work towards removing HTML entities 
from language files and sending out Content-type headers.