On 18-Jul-01, Matt Sealey wrote:

> As such, V's entity parser is PERFECT, for all intents and purposes,
> for all behaviours of IE, for entities that represent characters
> inside the Latin1 codepage. If you really want that to be ABSOLUTELY
> true, I will drop support for • and β today. Please tell me
> if anally retentive standards-hugging is more important than the
> functionality this might provide.

> Your mission - Jools, Ian, Mathias - should you choose to accept it,
> is to read this mail, understand that V works just fine, and quit
> telling me that it isn't working fine, and that I require looking at
> it more than I already have to understand something I've known to be
> the case and I have prompted, testcased, overseen, and verified the
> fixing of already this year.

How about satisfying everyone by having a preferences option to set the
parser for these entities to "IE", "Strict" or "Opera" ?  That would keep
everybody happy, until next time.

Of course, that involves a fair bit of coding, but it could go on the
"to do" list.

Regards
-- 
Don Cox
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