[thelist] Anchor Tag Encoding for Netscape 4.X

Jorah Lavin madstone at madstone.net
Wed Oct 1 12:04:50 CDT 2003


At 05:32 10/01/03 -0400, you wrote:
>The blanks (%20) and special characters must be properly encoded - or
>Netscape 4.X will generate the error
>
>"The parameter is incorrect"
>
>Modern browsers don't have this problem, but that just means they'll handle
>non-conforming HTML.
>
>My editor is Dreamweaver MX.  Is there any tool available that will take an
>ordinary string and encode it properly so the resulting HTML is valid?

Sam

I don't know what tool is available, but I've gotten in the habit of 
grabbing the addresses out of the address field in IE, which gives me all 
of the encoded %20s. You have to get the addresses somewhere, mostly, so 
why not get them with the encodings in place?

I also work hard to get my content providers to write-file-names-like-this.

-Jorah



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