Bart, Doesn't the browser turn that into a & in the link?
You are also supposed to use & in your text anywhere a & appears. But the browser just displays &. I expect the URLs in a link should be the same. Dave On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 03:59:26PM -0800, Bart Teeuwisse wrote: > Running some pages through a the W3.org HTML validator I learned that the > HTML > 4.01 Transitional standard requires query vars to be separated by & > instead of > &. E.g. > > http://wwww.thecodemill.biz/vars?bla=bladibla&blurb=blabla > > should be > > http://wwww.thecodemill.biz/vars?bla=bladibla&blurb=blabla > > Yet if you follow the above links you'll notice that AOLserver does not > handle > query vars separated by & very well. Rather than treating & as an > entity. > AOLserver replaces the & character which results in a var named 'amp;blurb' > instead of 'blurb' > > Google for example treats & and & separated queries the same. Shouldn't > AOLserver be patched to stay standards compliant? > > /Bart > -- Dave Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.thedesignexperience.org
