Hi Dan, As far as I'm aware, this is still necessary. However, if you're doing a huge replacement of & to & you can use BBEdit or (the free version) Text Wrangler to find and replace over multiple files. (However this program is only available on the mac--I'm not sure if Windows/Linux has a similar application.)
If you need a hand with using BBEdit/Text Wrangler, feel free to drop me a line :) Cheers, Jelina On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Dan Webb <libweb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi folks, > > Years ago, I use to painstakingly and religiously convert & to & > when ever I encountered it (HTML 4.01 Strict doctype). > > It's still pegged as invalid by the W3C validator, but is it really > still necessary these days? What could possibly go wrong in modern > browsers? > > I'm talking specifically here about ampersands in URLs that are > provided to me by database vendors, which I have no control over; I'm > about to start inserting literally 100s of them into static html > pages. > > thanks, > > danny boy. > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > ******************************************************************* > > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
