Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 09:22:12 -0600 (MDT) From: Brandon Gillespie <brandon@glacier.cold.org> To: hmmm <hmmm@alaska.net> Cc: richards@herald.net, Rick Gray <rickg@nwpros.com>, isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Internet Explorer bug? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960917092048.1875B-100000@glacier.cold.org> In-Reply-To: <323DAA61.2FC0@alaska.net>
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On Mon, 16 Sep 1996, hmmm wrote:
> Richard Stanford wrote:
> >
> > Rick Gray wrote:
> >
> > Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator will do their best to "fix"
> > broken HTML. This can lead to certain errors being masked, until the
> > page is viewed by lynx or another more literal browser. The problem
> > here is that any key-sequence beginning with & ( < & © ... )
> > should end with a semicolon ( ; ).
>
> not according to my specs. a lack of a semicolon means a space.
Semicolon is required. Because using something other than a semi-colon
may work with Netscape and other browsers does NOT mean it is correct.
When in doubt, reference _the_ only spec you should trust (do not trust
anything from books or other FAQ's). The HTML 2.0 spec:
http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_9.html
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