It is not wrong but it is odd. Why use character or entity reference when
you can use the '&' character. But the recommendations from W3C for HTML,
and for XHTML, allow for character and entity references to be used in
attribute values, including href. This has always been true, ever since Og
invented fire and put up a lynx optimized homepage to show it off.
Chuck
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Paul Chamberlain
> Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 12:29 PM
> To: FreeTrade
> Subject: Re: [FreeTrade] &
>
>
> Shannon -jj Behrens wrote:
> > Nonetheless, using & in URLs *in the source* is correct. You can
> > verify this by creating an HTML page and validating it using the W3C
> > HTML validator.
>
> I'm amazed that the HTML validator feels this way and even
> more amazed that the actual pages on the W3C are written
> this way. I'm amazed because I've been building webpages
> since '94 and I've never seen it done that way until I
> started using Freetrade.
>
> Now maybe the W3C, being the gods that they are, rewrote
> the way it should be done, but that's not the way most of
> the world does it. I checked around to make sure I hadn't
> lost my mind and found pages like http://www.yahoo.com/,
> http://www.working-dogs.com/freetrade/, and
> http://www.php.net/downloads.php that do it "the other" way.
>
> By no means am I saying W3C is "wrong" but they sure are
> "different".
> --
> Paul Chamberlain, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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