Re: HTML-PS converter.

Mike Meyer (mwm@contessa.phone.net)
Thu, 15 Dec 94 20:00:21 PST


> Actually, having just "&lt" is legal SGML.

As if it were reasonable to expect a browser to swallow legal HTML.
Many have problems if you just fail to omit all the tags.

I'd be interested in any browser that properly displayed all of
http://www.phone.net/~mwm/browserbuster.html . It validates under the
11/15 HTML 2.0 DTD, even with HTML.Recommended turned on. I've as yet
to find a browser that can deal with the second paragraph in it
properly.

> With all that said, one should use the ';' to delimit entity references.
> It makes life easier for developers of HTML based applications.

It also makes it more likely that your documents will display
properly.

<mike