Besides ampersands, I worked on a dynamic site that the convention was to add a (+) sign in the friendly URL. The plug takes the page title and puts the (+) sign between words.
The W3C validator tells me to convert to & and produces 163 errors per page, a site that validated up to the point of the friendly URL was added. There are also URLs to searches that don't validate for other reasons. I work as part of a team and had no say in the decision. So now, if I ask for help on certain email lists, and all I get is that your page doesn't validate. I no longer get any help for the question I ask which has nothing to do with why the page isn't validating. As more and more pages are generated dynamically with CMS in place, using friendly URL's or using markers as described below, should this be something the the W3C validator addresses? Nancy On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 1:58 AM, Michal Miksik <mmik...@gmail.com> wrote: > I just had problems with ampersands in google static maps, > where if placing multiple pins in 1 map I had to change &markers= > to &markers=, otherwise wouldn't work at all > MM > > > > > On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 7:39 AM, 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 >> ******************************************************************* >> > > > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > Ing. Michal Mikšík > web designer/developer > > Bratislava, SLOVAK REPUBLIC > > Web: http://moonpixel.com > > > ________________________________________________________________ > > > Please consider the environment before printing this email. > > This E-mail is Intended Solely for the Addressee(s) and May be Confidential. > > - If you are not the named addressee, or if the message has been E-mailed to > you in error, you must not read, disclose, reproduce, distribute or use this > E-mail. > > - Delivery of this E-mail to any person other than the named addressee is > not intended in any way to waive confidentiality. > > - If you have received this E-mail in error please contact the sender or > delete the message, thank you. > > > ******************************************************************* > 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 *******************************************************************
