12:45 a.m.
I was trying to validate an html page using w3c validator. I could not!
The reason was that the page contains lots of links to Google searches
etc. e.g.
<a
href="http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&source=hp&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=omeprazole+causes+bile+reflux&btnG=Google+Search">
The validator complains about the & in there - it wants & but the link
with that in won't work.
So is this a fault in the validator - or something which should be
accomodated in NetSurf?
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Richard Torrens.
http://www.Torrens.org for genealogy, natural history, wild food, walks, cats
and more!
2:02 a.m.
In article <56abea205fLists(a)Torrens.org>, Richard Torrens (lists)
<Lists(a)Torrens.org> wrote:
I was trying to validate an html page using w3c validator. I could
not!
The reason was that the page contains lots of links to Google
searches
etc. e.g. <a
href="http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&source=hp&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=omeprazole+causes+bile+reflux&btnG=Google+Search">
The validator complains about the & in there - it wants &
but the
link with that in won't work.
No, & won't work from your editor. It will work only in the Browser.
The four amp version of the link above will be
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&source=hp&ie=ISO-885...
And, buried in HTML, it works fine. It doesn't work in Pluto or StrongED
though, so don't expect it to. They are happy with '&' and don't
translate the '&'s as a browser does/has to.
So is this a fault in the validator - or something which should be
accomodated in NetSurf?
It's working just as it should. Your example elsewhere had a typo.
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Tim Hill
timil.com : tjrh.eu : butterwick.eu : blue-bike.uk : youngtheatre.co.uk
2:20 a.m.
In article <56abf12512tim(a)timil.com>,
Tim Hill <tim(a)timil.com> wrote:
No, & won't work from your editor. It will work only in
the Browser.
The four amp version of the link above will be
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&source=hp&ie=ISO-885...
And, buried in HTML, it works fine. It doesn't work in Pluto or
StrongED
though, so don't expect it to. They are happy with '&' and don't
translate the '&'s as a browser does/has to.
Thhanks - I can't have dug dseep enough. But what a pain - I extract URLs
from NetSurf's URL bar using !Transfer2. It of course picks up the
unglyphed version.
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Richard Torrens.
http://www.Torrens.org for genealogy, natural history, wild food, walks, cats
and more!
4:31 a.m.
In article <56abf2cfb6Lists(a)Torrens.org>, Richard Torrens (lists)
<Lists(a)Torrens.org> wrote:
Thhanks - I can't have dug dseep enough. But what a pain - I
extract
URLs from NetSurf's URL bar using !Transfer2. It of course picks up the
unglyphed version.
Indeed, I am someone who will often S&R & for & in a webpage when the
validator complains about them. It has to be an attended S&R though!
Transfer2? Why not just drag the URL into your editor?
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Tim Hill
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