[thelist] ASCii: html name vs html number

Randy Pearson randyp at cycla.com
Wed Nov 5 07:29:57 CST 2003


> > According to a chart i found, » does the same thing 
> as #&187 - one is the html name, one is the html number.
> > Moreover, which is the more correct version to use, given 
> my charset?

My HTML reference says that the #&187; style of entity is understood back to
Netscape 1 (!), so those seem pretty safe <s> albeit less readable at design
time (although in this example "raquo" means nothing to me).

-- Randy



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