Hello Leif,
I think that more and more, we are on the wrong mailing list.
Regards, Martin.
On 2012/07/18 18:47, Leif Halvard Silli wrote:
"Martin J. Dürst", Wed, 18 Jul 2012 17:20:31 +0900:
On 2012/07/18 16:35, Leif Halvard Silli wrote:
"Martin J. Dürst", Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:00:42 +0900:
The best reason is simply that nobody should be using
crutches as long as they can walk with their own legs.
Crutches, in that sense, is only about authoring convenience.
[…] Nevertheless: I, as Web author, would perhaps skip that
convenience if I knew that doing so could improve e.g. HTML5
browser's ability to sniff the encoding correctly […]
I'm not sure there are many people for whom using named character
entities or numeric character references is a convenience. But for
those for whom it is a convenience, let them use it.
By all means: Let them.
But the W3C's I18N working group still gives out advice about when to
(not) use escapes.[1] Advice which the homepage of W3.org breaks -
since every non-ASCII character of http://www.w3.org is escaped.
What the I18N group says in that document, is a bit moralistic (along
the lines 'please think about how difficult it is for non-English
authors to read escapes for all their characters). It seems to me that
a mention of real effects on browser behavior could be a better form of
advice. Especially when coupled with advice about avoiding the BOM.[2]
[1] http://www.w3.org/International/techniques/authoring-html#escapes
[2] http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-byte-order-mark#bomhow
