Re: non-alphabet characters

Roy T. Fielding (fielding@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU)
Sat, 08 Oct 1994 19:19:09 -0700

> Mosaic for the Mac (2.0Alpha 8 version), which is the browser I use to
> check my progress while writing HTML documents, doesn't seem to recognize
> «.

It also doesn't recognize &eumlaut; and mistakenly treats <BR>
the same as <P> inside unordered lists.
I recommend against using MacMosaic as a reference implementation -- it's
a great application, but I wouldn't use it as a reference.

This, I think, is the difference between free software which includes
source code and that which doesn't -- these bugs would have been fixed
within days of an XMosaic release, because a thousand different programmers
would ferret out the bugs and at least one would publish a relevant patch.

......Roy Fielding ICS Grad Student, University of California, Irvine USA
<fielding@ics.uci.edu>
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