Re: Parsing < and <

Lou Montulli (montulli@netscape.com)
Thu, 20 Apr 95 16:14:07 EDT

On Apr 20, 3:49pm, Luke wrote:
> Subject: Parsing < and <
>
> Is there any difference between &#60 and < etc. in current html 2.0
> spec? I can't seem to find a authoritative answer. I noticed an "anomaly"
> in netscape 1.1b3 today: it "eats" the following html fragment:
>
> <stuff>
>
> i.e., it seems to unescape &#NN first then feed it to the parser...
>
> <stuff>
>
> is displayed as <stuff> though. All other browsers I've tried (lynx 2.3,
> MacWeb 1.0a3, Netscape 1.0N) display both as <stuff>.
>
> I was wondering which is the correct behavior. I suspect it might be a bug
> in 1.1b...but since they changed it over 1.0N...there might be a change in
> the spec. If so, I would oppose the change. Anyone can give me some
> reasons? Thanks.
>

That's a bug. It will be fixed in the next release.

:lou

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