[whatwg] Character/Entity Reference Syntax Support
Henri Sivonen
hsivonen at iki.fi
Sat Nov 26 02:34:32 PST 2005
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.
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Henri Sivonen
hsivonen at iki.fi
http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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