On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 01:07, Sean M. Burke wrote: > Personally, I think the W3C's whole ;-for-& idea is something that should > have been done from the beginning, but which it's maybe too late to do now > -- since one never knows if a given server/CGI will be able to make sense > of ;-as-separator, I can't imagine any user-agent just spontaneously > emitting them, so I wonder if there will ever be impetus for adopting it.
Agreed, mostly. But a noteworthy point IMO is that the URI package is used not only in user agents for emission, but in server side applications constructing URIs eg. for inclusion in their HTML output. In that case, the application knows if it can handle ;'s. Not that I would recommend it for this reason, but by using semicolons instead of ampersands one can get away with sloppy code, ie. forgetting to run all emitted URIs in HTML through HTML::Entities::encode or something similar. -- \/ille Skytt� ville.skytta at iki.fi
