Re: [OT] amp; in URLs (was: Re: Templating System)

2000-07-28 Thread Michael Hanisch
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Dave Jenkins wrote: Then you are wrong. :) You need to have amp; in there, so that the browser can turn it back from amp; to before sending the URL back up to your server (or whichever server comes along). Are you really positive about this? unlurk I had

RE: [OT] amp; in URLs (was: Re: Templating System)

2000-07-28 Thread Gerald Richter
To be honest, I have always used plain ampersands in URLs embedded in my pages, and thus far I have never encountered any problems. But maybe I've just been lucky... ;-) me too Gerald

Re: [OT] amp; in URLs (was: Re: Templating System)

2000-07-28 Thread Gisle Aas
Michael Hanisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Dave Jenkins wrote: Then you are wrong. :) You need to have amp; in there, so that the browser can turn it back from amp; to before sending the URL back up to your server (or whichever server comes along). Are

Re: [OT] amp; in URLs (was: Re: Templating System)

2000-07-28 Thread Mark Doyle
From: Michael Hanisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2000-07-28 06:48:14 -0400 Are you really positive about this? Randal is 100% correct. AFAIK (and I just looked it up in the HTML 3.2 spec :-) the A tag is defined as follows: (quoted from http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html32#sgmldecl) So the

Re: [OT] amp; in URLs (was: Re: Templating System)

2000-07-28 Thread Robin Berjon
At 13:28 28/07/2000 +0200, Michael Hanisch wrote: To be honest, I have always used plain ampersands in URLs embedded in my pages, and thus far I have never encountered any problems. But maybe I've just been lucky... ;-) Forget about all those mindboggling HTML questions ! Use XHTML, there amp;

Re: [OT] amp; in URLs (was: Re: Templating System)

2000-07-28 Thread John Siracusa
On 7/28/00 12:54 PM, Mark Doyle wrote: We deliberately chose to use URL's with a series of '/' delimited fields rather then using '? ... ' style URL's precisely because most people don't know they have to escape the ampersands and we didn't want to risk people's links breaking in the

Re: [OT] amp; in URLs (was: Re: Templating System)

2000-07-28 Thread brian d foy
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Michael Hanisch wrote: I really believe my thoughts outlined in my original post are correct - but right now I am starting to worry... Personally I would attribute the described problem to a bug in IE4 - even if it parses the URI for entities, it shouldn't find a "sect;"

Re: [OT] amp; in URLs (was: Re: Templating System)

2000-07-28 Thread brian d foy
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, brian d foy wrote: On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Michael Hanisch wrote: Personally I would attribute the described problem to a bug in IE4 - even if it parses the URI for entities, it shouldn't find a "sect;" since the Alan Flavell has an excellent article on this problem,