[WEB4LIB] RE: Following standards

[Michael Sauers]

> When in HREF, do as the Roma..., errr, use straight URLs.
> If one is compelled to spell out the link address as the anchor, use HTML
> entities for any questionable characters.  [This is a phenomenon which I
> have observed over the years, but which I have yet to fathom.]

So you're saying do this:

<a href="http://www.joe.com/foo.html?junk=1&stuff=2">http://www.joe.com/
foo.html?junk=1&amp;stuff=2</a>            ^
               ^^^^
Actually, at least in XHTML, that line will not validate. To write valid
XHTML you must encode the ampersand everywhere. That's what people are
complaining about.

Besides, why would using &amp; inside a URL not be a 'straight URL' as
you've called it?

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