Re: Page won't load Netscape 4

by Andrew McFarland <aamcf(at)aamcf.co.uk>

Date:	Wed, 14 Aug 2002 21:59:56 +0100
To:	<hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
References:	julianasnetwork ntlworld
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At 07:09 12/08/02 -0500, Gary Krockover wrote:
>I _never_ use &amp; in the href because _that_ breaks my search context.

The &amp; should never make it out of the browser and into the url.

<.a href="http://www.example.com/foo?bar=bat&amp;boo=bam">Results</a>

Will take you to the URL

http://www.example.com/foo?bar=bat&boo=bam

All major browsers correctly substitute `&' for `&amp;' when changing it to 
a url. Those that don't are severely broken. I would be interested in 
seeing an example of a search where using `&amp' in the HTML broke the 
results - something, somewhere must be broken if that is happening.

Andrew

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