A lot of Firefox users I know, says they have problems with validation
where the ampersand sign has to be written as & to be valid. I don't
have Firefox my self and don't wont to install it only because of this,
so I hope some of you gurus can enlighten me with this :)
In what circumstances can the "&" in the source code be involuntary
changed to "&" by a browser when or other software, when editing and
uploading the file to the web server?
E.g. writing a string like "sc_project=402 887&java=0& amp;security"
is changed to "sc_project=402 887&java=0&secu rity" when the validator is
processing the code, without the editor doing the change deliberately.
TIA
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Arne wrote: A lot of Firefox users I know, says they have problems with validation
In the route from editor to server to on-line validator, just where
does Firefox (or any browser) have anything to do with it?
Your question, as stated, has too much missing from it to make any
sense.
In our last episode,
<4c************ *@individual.ne t>,
the lovely and talented Arne
broadcast on comp.infosystem s. www.authoring.html: A lot of Firefox users I know, says they have problems with validation
where the ampersand sign has to be written as & to be valid. I don't
have Firefox my self and don't wont to install it only because of this,
so I hope some of you gurus can enlighten me with this :)
This doesn't make any sense. & should be & anywhere in any html
document unless the & is the beginning of a character reference. Validity
does not depend upon the browser, but is a property the document may or may
not have regardless of the browser. Browser should correctly translate
character references in URLs when they fetch, but so far as I know and I can
tell from testing, Firefox does that.
In what circumstances can the "&" in the source code be involuntary
changed to "&" by a browser when or other software, when editing and
uploading the file to the web server?
I can't make any sense of this. Browsers shouldn't be doing anything to
files they upload, and I never heard of one that did. I'm not sure what
happens if you use a browser function to insert the contents of a file in a
textarea, but that is not the same thing as uploading a file.
E.g. writing a string like "sc_project=402 887&java=0& amp;security"
If you write this in a file and save it and then upload the file, the
following should not happen:
is changed to "sc_project=402 887&java=0&secu rity" when the validator is
processing the code, without the editor doing the change deliberately.
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Once upon a time *Andy Dingley <di*****@codesm iths.com>* wrote: Arne wrote: A lot of Firefox users I know, says they have problems with
validation
In the route from editor to server to on-line validator, just where
does Firefox (or any browser) have anything to do with it?
Your question, as stated, has too much missing from it to make any
sense.
Yes, I do belive it's a bit difficult to understand. :)
I'll try with an example as it is described to me.
On a remote visitor tracker site (statcounter.co m) when the tracker code
that is to be pasted on a page, is generated using Firefox, the code to
copy is shown in a text box. Part of the code is what I used in my
initial post ("sc_project=40 2887&java=0&sec urity"). In my browser and
also in IE, this part shows the ampersands as "&".
When I look at the source code for the page where the box with the
generated code is, the ampersand shows as "&amp", but when I
validate the page, the W3C validator also complains about the "&", where
the "&" (or "&amp") should be.
This page is HTML 4.0 Transitional with 9 errors, and most of the errors
(6-7) is because of the ampersand is not shown as "&"
I know it's hard to understand this, and I for sure have no idea. I was
hoping somebody could have some theory what's happening. :)
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To further the education of mankind, Arne <in*****@domain .invalid>
vouchsafed: When I look at the source code for the page where the box with the
generated code is, the ampersand shows as "&amp", but when I
validate the page, the W3C validator also complains about the "&", where
the "&" (or "&amp") should be.
What do you mean "should be"? You just said "&amp" was in the source
code. This would display "&" in the viewport. So where does the lone
"&" come from? (Btw, note that the "&" is incorrect. It should be
"&".)
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Neredbojias
Infinity has its limits.
Arne wrote: Once upon a time *Andy Dingley <di*****@codesm iths.com>* wrote: Arne wrote: A lot of Firefox users I know, says they have problems with
validation
In the route from editor to server to on-line validator, just where
does Firefox (or any browser) have anything to do with it?
Your question, as stated, has too much missing from it to make any
sense.
Yes, I do belive it's a bit difficult to understand. :)
I'll try with an example as it is described to me.
On a remote visitor tracker site (statcounter.co m) when the tracker code
that is to be pasted on a page, is generated using Firefox, the code to
copy is shown in a text box. Part of the code is what I used in my
initial post ("sc_project=40 2887&java=0&sec urity"). In my browser and
also in IE, this part shows the ampersands as "&".
When I look at the source code for the page where the box with the
generated code is, the ampersand shows as "&amp", but when I
validate the page, the W3C validator also complains about the "&", where
the "&" (or "&amp") should be.
This page is HTML 4.0 Transitional with 9 errors, and most of the errors
(6-7) is because of the ampersand is not shown as "&"
I know it's hard to understand this, and I for sure have no idea. I was
hoping somebody could have some theory what's happening. :)
I'm still having trouble understanding, but try this: if you have
"&" in your string, and you need it to read as "&" in the
browser, then you need to change it to "&amp;" . Not "&amp", as
you wrote twice, but "&amp;" . "&amp" will be interpreted as
"&", which is indeed invalid.
Once upon a time *Harlan Messinger* wrote: Arne wrote: Once upon a time *Andy Dingley <di*****@codesm iths.com>* wrote: Arne wrote:
A lot of Firefox users I know, says they have problems with
validation
In the route from editor to server to on-line validator, just where
does Firefox (or any browser) have anything to do with it?
Your question, as stated, has too much missing from it to make any
sense.
Yes, I do belive it's a bit difficult to understand. :)
I'll try with an example as it is described to me.
On a remote visitor tracker site (statcounter.co m) when the tracker code
that is to be pasted on a page, is generated using Firefox, the code to
copy is shown in a text box. Part of the code is what I used in my
initial post ("sc_project=40 2887&java=0&sec urity"). In my browser and
also in IE, this part shows the ampersands as "&".
When I look at the source code for the page where the box with the
generated code is, the ampersand shows as "&amp", but when I
validate the page, the W3C validator also complains about the "&", where
the "&" (or "&amp") should be.
This page is HTML 4.0 Transitional with 9 errors, and most of the errors
(6-7) is because of the ampersand is not shown as "&"
I know it's hard to understand this, and I for sure have no idea. I was
hoping somebody could have some theory what's happening. :)
I'm still having trouble understanding, but try this: if you have
"&" in your string, and you need it to read as "&" in the
browser, then you need to change it to "&amp;" . Not "&amp", as
you wrote twice, but "&amp;" . "&amp" will be interpreted as
"&", which is indeed invalid.
Yes, the "&amp" was a typo from me, but only here. *I* can see
"&amp;" in the source code of the page containing the code (in the
box) for the tracker. In the "web view" mode (the actual page) the code
in the text box shows & for *me*. It's like having "&" in the
page source to see "&" on the page.
But Firefox users see only "&" in the text box that and when they paste
the tracker code to their pages, the code of course don't validate. The
question is why Firefox don't show the tracker code in the box as
SeaMonkey and IE does?
The content in the text box is like plain text in Notepad, but Firefox
is transforming the & to a & even if everything else is as it
should. Firefox users have to add the "amp;" manually to make it valid
code. I guess most can do it, but should not really need to when the
generator is preparing a "ready to copy" code.
And I'm just trying to figure out why this happend only on Firefox. :)
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Proud User of SeaMonkey. Get your free copy: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/
Once upon a time *Lars Eighner* wrote: In our last episode,
<4c************ *@individual.ne t>,
the lovely and talented Arne
broadcast on comp.infosystem s.www.authoring.html:
A lot of Firefox users I know, says they have problems with validation
where the ampersand sign has to be written as & to be valid. I don't
have Firefox my self and don't wont to install it only because of this,
so I hope some of you gurus can enlighten me with this :)
This doesn't make any sense. & should be & anywhere in any html
document unless the & is the beginning of a character reference. Validity
does not depend upon the browser, but is a property the document may or may
not have regardless of the browser. Browser should correctly translate
character references in URLs when they fetch, but so far as I know and I can
tell from testing, Firefox does that.
In what circumstances can the "&" in the source code be involuntary
changed to "&" by a browser when or other software, when editing and
uploading the file to the web server?
I can't make any sense of this. Browsers shouldn't be doing anything to
files they upload, and I never heard of one that did. I'm not sure what
happens if you use a browser function to insert the contents of a file in a
textarea, but that is not the same thing as uploading a file.
E.g. writing a string like "sc_project=402 887&java=0& amp;security"
If you write this in a file and save it and then upload the file, the
following should not happen:
is changed to "sc_project=402 887&java=0&secu rity" when the validator is
processing the code, without the editor doing the change deliberately.
Well, you are not the only one that can't make any sense of this. But
the fact is (as it's told to me anyway) when Firefox users generate the
code(see my other posts) that is "ready to copy" for everybody else (it
seams) they have to manually add the "amp;" part after the "&" to make
it valid code.
If I should see the same in my browsers (SeaMonkey and IE) I may have
suspected e.g. the code generator script, or the firewall. But if the
error is there, why does it affect only Firefox.
If anybody with Firefox in this NG would go to www.statcounter.com and
register for an tracker account, they could see if it happends to them.
However, I don't expect anybody to do it, only because of this. I don't
install Firefox because of it. :)
--
/Arne
Proud User of SeaMonkey. Get your free copy: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/
Arne wrote: Well, you are not the only one that can't make any sense of this. But
the fact is (as it's told to me anyway) when Firefox users generate the
code(see my other posts) that is "ready to copy" for everybody else (it
seams) they have to manually add the "amp;" part after the "&" to make
it valid code.
If I should see the same in my browsers (SeaMonkey and IE) I may have
suspected e.g. the code generator script, or the firewall. But if the
error is there, why does it affect only Firefox.
If anybody with Firefox in this NG would go to www.statcounter.com and
register for an tracker account, they could see if it happends to them.
However, I don't expect anybody to do it, only because of this. I don't
install Firefox because of it. :)
OK, I get the point. For everyone else: StatCounter gives you code to
add a hit counter to your page, and gives you a number of options for
how it should look and operate. Once you've made your selections, it
gives you code like the following, in a TEXTAREA for some reason, so you
can copy and paste it to your web page.
<!-- Start of StatCounter Code -->
<script type="text/javascript" language="javas cript">
var sc_project=nnnn nn;
var sc_invisible=0;
var sc_partition=11 ;
var sc_security="11 111111";
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" language="javas cript"
src="http://www.statcounter .com/counter/counter.js"></script><noscrip t><a
href="http://www.statcounter .com/" target="_blank" ><img
src="http://c12.statcounter .com/counter.php?sc_ project=nnnnnn& java=0&security =1111111&invisi ble=0"
alt="free invisible hit counter" border="0"></a> </noscript>
<!-- End of StatCounter Code -->
The above was pasted from Firefox, and you can see that the query string
for counter.php has literal ampersands ("&"). If you View Page Source,
it shows "&".
In IE, the code as displayed in the TEXTAREA has the "&":
src="http://c12.statcounter .com/counter.php?sc_ project=nnnnnn& amp;java=0& security=111111 1&invisible =0"
View Source shows the underlying code to be "&amp;" .
So it looks as though Firefox is throwing in an extra round of replacements.
Once upon a time *Harlan Messinger* wrote: Arne wrote: Well, you are not the only one that can't make any sense of this. But
the fact is (as it's told to me anyway) when Firefox users generate the
code(see my other posts) that is "ready to copy" for everybody else (it
seams) they have to manually add the "amp;" part after the "&" to make
it valid code.
If I should see the same in my browsers (SeaMonkey and IE) I may have
suspected e.g. the code generator script, or the firewall. But if the
error is there, why does it affect only Firefox.
If anybody with Firefox in this NG would go to www.statcounter.com and
register for an tracker account, they could see if it happends to them.
However, I don't expect anybody to do it, only because of this. I don't
install Firefox because of it. :)
OK, I get the point. For everyone else: StatCounter gives you code to
add a hit counter to your page, and gives you a number of options for
how it should look and operate. Once you've made your selections, it
gives you code like the following, in a TEXTAREA for some reason, so you
can copy and paste it to your web page.
<!-- Start of StatCounter Code -->
<script type="text/javascript" language="javas cript">
var sc_project=nnnn nn;
var sc_invisible=0;
var sc_partition=11 ;
var sc_security="11 111111";
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" language="javas cript"
src="http://www.statcounter .com/counter/counter.js"></script><noscrip t><a
href="http://www.statcounter .com/" target="_blank" ><img
src="http://c12.statcounter .com/counter.php?sc_ project=nnnnnn& java=0&security =1111111&invisi ble=0"
alt="free invisible hit counter" border="0"></a> </noscript>
<!-- End of StatCounter Code -->
The above was pasted from Firefox, and you can see that the query string
for counter.php has literal ampersands ("&"). If you View Page Source,
it shows "&".
In IE, the code as displayed in the TEXTAREA has the "&":
src="http://c12.statcounter .com/counter.php?sc_ project=nnnnnn& amp;java=0& security=111111 1&invisible =0"
View Source shows the underlying code to be "&amp;" .
So it looks as though Firefox is throwing in an extra round of replacements.
Thank you Harlan, it's a relief to see that it really is as what's told
me and I'm sorry I could not explain it better (as you did). My English
is far from what I wish it to be. :D
Is this something that could be reported as a bug in Firefox, if it's
not done yet? If we don't have any Firefox gurus in this group. :)
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