On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 09:17:00PM +0000, Darren Salt wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > Funny you should say that, in light of... > > X-Message-Flag: Outlook Express is broken. Upgrade to mail(1). > > IMHO this is not a bug, it's a request for supporting broken browsers. > > Any browser which displays > <a href="index.html>Home page</a> > as a link, containing the text "Home page", to index.html is supporting > broken HTML; should it simply fail to display it?
HTML parsers often need to be lenient in lots of ways, due to the various semi-broken or completely broken things that people dump into web pages. That's more or less OK; it's true that it fails to encourage people to fix their pages, but in itself it doesn't cause a portability problem. However, there's no excuse for being "lenient" in ways that cause them to send broken requests when users follow links, IMHO. Leniency doesn't extend to being wrong. :) Their parsing here renders it impossible for authors to produce correct and portable pages with links containing the '&' character, and that's a very serious bug (I don't mean serious in the Debian sense here). Regarding this whole discussion, see: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/1999OctDec/0162.html Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
