[whatwg] Entity parsing

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Mon Jun 25 00:19:06 PDT 2007


On Sat, 23 Jun 2007, Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote:
> 
> What about the Gecko entity parsing extension?
>
> - IE consitently parses unterminated entities from latin-1
> - Gecko parses all unterminated entities, even those beyond latin-1, but only 
> in text-content, not in attributes. (seems my recent firefox also supports 
> the IE parsing in attributes now.)

Well we can't support two at once... There seems to be more of a case for 
having the spec support the IE model.

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