From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Sep 17 08:22:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA17033 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 08:22:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA17027 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 08:22:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from glacier.cold.org (glacier.sunrem.com [206.81.134.54]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id IAA21784 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 08:22:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from brandon@localhost) by glacier.cold.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA01906; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 09:22:14 -0600 (MDT) Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 09:22:12 -0600 (MDT) From: Brandon Gillespie To: hmmm cc: richards@herald.net, Rick Gray , isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Internet Explorer bug? In-Reply-To: <323DAA61.2FC0@alaska.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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