Re: lynx-dev Conversion of special character codes within anchor tags

[David Woolley]

> If all browsers agreed, it would be possible, however pointless, to take
> account of this behaviour by sending the URL as
> http://www.some.site/sample.cgi?para=1&curren=GBP. However, very few
> browsers agree with lynx's behaviour on this point, so sending the URL in
> this form would create more problems than it solved.
> 

Then rather a lot of browsers are broken.  The problem is that HTML *is*
SGML but most commercial software writers ignore this and code it in a
lazy way with the result that one gets all sorts of variant behaviour
(such as the problems that require Lynx to have 2 broken comment parsing modes
and 1 broken quoting mode).  SGML implies, and HTML 4.0 makes explicit,
the requirement to use &amp in HREF attribute parameter strings.