Re: Lynx updated to version 2.8.1dev6 on userbin

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From: amatu
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 00:00

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It turns out Lynx is working properly after all.  Despite what the URI
spec says about ampersands being reserved as delimiters inside a query
string, when a URI is present in an HTML document, the HTML meaning of
the ampersand takes precedence.

I found the explanation in a footnote to the HTML specification:

http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_foot.html#FOOT26

So, Lynx broke my software (which conforms to the URI spec for the URIs)
by conforming more strongly to the HTML spec.  I will go forthwith and
change all my delimeters to semicolons or vertical bars now.

-Alex

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