Re: character references, trailing ';', urls

On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 12:54:06AM +0000, eocene wrote:
> Jorge wrote:
> > On Sun, May 04, 2014 at 09:09:48PM +0000, eocene wrote:
> > > This msg says that it was changed because it wasn't required under
> > > certain conditions. HTML4 spec gives it as:
> > > 
> > >   Note. In SGML, it is possible to eliminate the final ";" after a
> > >   character reference in some cases (e.g., at a line break or
> > >   immediately before a tag). In other circumstances it may not be
> > >   eliminated (e.g., in the middle of a word). We strongly suggest
> > >   using the ";" in all cases to avoid problems with user agents that
> > >   require this character to be present.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > ...and there's an "IIRC" in the msg that XHTML requires it.
> > > 
> > > The HTML5 spec requires a terminating ';' in all cases.
> > 
> >   Then, it looks like requiring it again in this case may be
> > the way to go (I seem to recall there were lots of unterminated NBSP).
> 
> Are you saying always for html5, (probably) always for xhtml, and for
> attributes with html4?

  I'm saying we should find a simple heuristic that copes with
the current situation.

>  
> >   A long long time ago people thought that SGML was the final
> > solution, then XML, then HTML5, now they're looking for an
> > alternative technology to base the web upon...
> 
> Where have they been talking about an alternative technology?

  I  remember short ago, reading somewhere in the news that there
were  funds  and  a  call  for  people  with expertise to work on
designing an alternative technology for the web (to try to tackle
the enormous amount of complexity full blown browsers have become
not to mention the disparate user experience this creates).


-- 
  Cheers
  Jorge.-