Re: HTML encoding in URLs
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 1997
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 14160
interpreted = N
texte = >We ran into this with an early WebCatalog that used &gr, which we changed to >> for exactly this reason (Netscape tweaked it to >). We feel it is >somewhat improper for a browser to convert unterminated (not followed by ;) >escape strings.Seems like sandbags to hold back a flood to me. I understand that the HTML 3 spec has a lot more of these things, such as ne, ge, lt, le and so on... for the same reason that WebCat uses them. Soon we will have HTML-compliant browsers (NS 5.x?) that will reveal these problems.But as my grandfather used to say, we'll burn that bridge when we come to it...In the meantime I've turned off the unterminated entities (OminWeb has truly great preference setting capabilities), and will keep this problem in mind in all future developments.Regards Thomas Thomas Wedderburn-Bisshop Development Manager Woomera Net Solutions
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>We ran into this with an early WebCatalog that used &gr, which we changed to >> for exactly this reason (Netscape tweaked it to >). We feel it is >somewhat improper for a browser to convert unterminated (not followed by ;) >escape strings.Seems like sandbags to hold back a flood to me. I understand that the HTML 3 spec has a lot more of these things, such as ne, ge, lt, le and so on... for the same reason that WebCat uses them. Soon we will have HTML-compliant browsers (NS 5.x?) that will reveal these problems.But as my grandfather used to say, we'll burn that bridge when we come to it...In the meantime I've turned off the unterminated entities (OminWeb has truly great preference setting capabilities), and will keep this problem in mind in all future developments.Regards Thomas Thomas Wedderburn-Bisshop Development Manager Woomera Net Solutions
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