On Oct 16, 2005, at 04:32, Lachlan Hunt wrote:
It seems that IE doesn't support omitting the REFC for any hex character reference and only supports omitting it for ISO-8859-1 entities plus &, <, > and " from the markup significant category. IE doesn't support &apos either, but it's not defined in HTML4 anyway.
I have suggested that conforming documents be required to use the semicolon in all cases. That way conformance checkers could enforce maximum compatibility.
-- Henri Sivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
