Re: [boost] spaces in URIs

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-10-08 15:48:14

At 02:14 PM 10/8/2002, David Abrahams wrote:

 >Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> writes:
 >
 >> At 11:06 AM 10/8/2002, David Abrahams wrote:
 >>
 >>  >> But do we know what is actually valid?  It is pretty scary if even
 >>  >> HTMLTidy can't figure out the "right way".  Need to do some 
research.
 >>  >
 >>  >I don't know what you mean. HTMLTidy claims the space is illegal and
 >>  >is unambiguous about it.
 >>
 >> Yes, but the fix HTMLTidy suggested apparently didn't work for a
 >> common browser.  That is what I found scary.
 >
 >It didn't work because the anchor still had the non-matching illegal
 >name with the space in it. Makes complete sense to me.

Sure it makes sense, but the net result was that a link which worked with 
the two most common browsers (IE and Netscape) no longer worked.

--Beman