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Posted by Ed Mullen on 01/31/07 01:19
Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
> Scripsit Dan:
>
>> I saw some code like "    ", which leaves out the
>> semicolon; it's a good idea to use the semicolon even if in some cases
>> (maybe this one) it's permissible to leave it out.
>
> It's a particularly good idea because the authors of IE 7 decided to
> make it even less HTML 4.01 conformant than it used to be in this
> respect. By all HTML specifications up to and including HTML 4.01, you
> can omit the REFC, reference close (that's SGML jargon for the semicolon
> here), whenever the character reference is not followed by a name
> character. And "&" ain't no name character by HTML rules. XHTML changes
> this by making the semicolon required, and IE 7, madly enough, decided
> to follow suit - despite it's unwillingness to support XHTML! As if this
> were not mad enough, IE 7 imposes the rule on some types of character or
> entity references only.
>
> To maintain mental sanity, thus, close your references with the magic
> semicolon. Too bad there are probably millions of pages that lack such
> semicolons; for no good reason, IE 7 decided to break them.
>
>> Why encode spaces anyway?
>
> Beats me. To participate in an HTML obfuscation contest? :-)
Oooh! Fabulous! A new acronym is born: HOC = HTML Obfuscation
Contest!!! Can I play?
Nah, never mind. I'm already confused, no need to formalize it.
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