On Tuesday 26 September 2006 08:23 pm, Ian Hickson wrote: > On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Roger B. Sidje wrote: > > The other issue are those 2000 entities that MathML has. > > Yeah... Do we really need those? Some of them seem reasonable to add, > but 2000 seems like too many for the mnemonic advantage to beat just > using Unicode codepoints... > > The problem with adding entities is that a LOT of people do things > like > > href="/u?aa=foo&ab=foo&ac=foo&ad=foo" > > ...which today works, but would break if MathML entities were > introduced (since &ac is a MathML entity). > Oh, I've seen this problem before; when people would link to Image Shack, part of the URL contained "&image=foo". Of course, it looked odd seeing the "&image" part become the imaginary part character (kinda looks like a dragon), but the URL still worked. This is why I encourage usage of the semicolon instead... -- Matt Sicker
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