Re: [StrongED] html and charsets

[Steve Fryatt <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 17 Dec, "Richard Torrens (lists)" wrote in message
    <56abf01abcLists@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

> In article <mpro.p13vyz01wdsrn025n.lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>    Steve Fryatt <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Does not work where?
> 
> [Snip]
> 
> > If you mean "Doesn't work when launched from StrongED", that's a
> > different problem altogether.
> 
> A good point. Yes I did originally launch it from StrongED. But dragging
> and dropping the URL into NetSurf's URL bar - with an &amp; it does not go
> to the page.
> 
> So I duplicated the link within the source page, changed the & to &amp; -
> that also doesn't work. So it's nothing to do with StrongED.

The &amp; is only required in the source HTML fed to a browser. The browser
will convert it into & when it renders the page. Via any other route, it
should also be &, because it isn't arriving as HTML.

The bottom line is, the Validator is correct. And also that when launching
URLs in HTML mode, maybe StrongED should be able to fudge any entities that
it encounters...

-- 
Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England

http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/

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