Re: [Lynx-dev] Accept types (www.facespan.com)

[Walter Ian Kaye]

At 07:26a +0000 03/17/2004, David Woolley didst inscribe upon an 
electronic papyrus:

>  > © or & or ... -- you know, entities.
>
> These require a DTD.  If the document is anything except HTML or an SGML
> or XML language, they have no meaning except for the literal sequence
> of characters.  If they are XML only four values are defined, without
> the browser knowing or parsing the DTD.  There is one school of thought
> that says that, as browsers are not generally validating parsers, that
> only those four may be safely used in XHTML.

Are you saying that the reason Lynx isn't decoding them is not 
because the page was gzipped, but rather because the page is XHTML?


-boo
 glad that ™ wasn't decoded, as that's not even valid HTML ;)




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