Re: HTML entity bug ?

[Roger Turk]

I think that Pete's clock is off by a couple of days!  Although his header 
said he sent it on Thursday, he referred to a Saturday post by Clarence.

Roger Turk
Tucson, Arizona  USA

Pete wrote:

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On Sat, 12 Aug 2000 20:03:58 -0500, Clarence Verge wrote:

> Hello All;

> I have found that Arachne has a problem with these HTML entities and there
> are probably a lot more: &gt,&lt,&quot,&#92,&#39.

> In order to recognize the entity, Arachne must see a space after it.
> She will eat that space when displaying the character, but other browsers
> won't.

> To display (in PRE formatted text mode) the following: "%X"=="" goto end.
> Arachne must see: &quot %X&quot ==&quot &quot  goto end.
> Netscape will display: " %X" ==" "  goto end.
> Extra spaces            ^   ^   ^ ^       are undesired.

> -  Clarence Verge

Hi Clarence,
 Does adding the ";" to "&quot" make a difference?
> --<<

And Clarence Verge responded:

>>Yup.
Where were you before I passed the point of no return ?
Never mind. <G>
You didn't know I was flailing about trying to make some
sense of this NONsense.
I would be WAY ahead now if I had seen your message on Thursday
when you sent it. '-)

-  Clarence Verge<<