Re: Parsing < and <

Eric Bina (ebina@netscape.com)
Thu, 20 Apr 95 16:39:53 EDT

> 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>.

&#60; should be the same as &lt;

This is a known bug in 1.1b3 and has been fixed.

Eric