Re: LYNX-DEV hmm. &lt bug?

[Klaus Weide]

On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, Whiskey Mike wrote:

> I was in the midst of putting a page up that relies heavily on < and >
> characters, so I ran a filter through the original text document and
> replaced < with &lt and > with &gt.

Use &lt; and &gt;.

> If there was text that was formatted as: (examples)
> formatted as          displayed as
> 
> &ltnot playing&gt       &ltnot playing>
> &lt not&gt            < not>

Lynx doesn't know of a "&ltnot" entity, that's why.

> It appears to me that if there's an &lt and immediately following, a
> space, the < is displayed. if there's an &lt and not a space, it displays
> as &lt instead of <.

Which is as it should be.

> I've had no problems with &gt, but I'm assuming the
> same thing would happen if I were to want to display  &gtnot&lt as >not<
> 
> I viewed the page using (ugh) Netscape and (double ugh) IE, and everything
> displays correctly. PLease advise.

You were probably using some older version.  The latest version of
Netscape is said to have corrected that bug.

   Klaus


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