[thelist] mailto links & Outlook subjects

[M. Seyon]

Message from Andrew Clover (12/17/2004 08:18 PM)
><peter at easylistbox.com> wrote:
>
>>You don't have to encode your ampersands in the querystring.
>
>Not so. All HTML attributes, whether they contain URLs or anything else, 
>*must* escape ampersands (and less-than, and whichever quote character is 
>in use). href="foo?a=b&c=d" is invalid HTML and non-well-formed XML. It 
>will work in the average browser, until one of your parameters has the 
>same name as an HTML entity (eg. ?page=1&sect=3) at which point it'll all 
>go skewiff.

And if anyone is curious, here are the citations for this:
in XHTML: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#C_12
in HTML4: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/appendix/notes.html#h-B.2.2


>Now, whether mailto: links with query strings are to be recommended is 
>another story...!

*cough* *cough*

regards.
-marc

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