From delislma@CollegeSherbrooke.qc.ca Wed Feb 12 07:09:23 2003
From: Marc Delisle <delislma@CollegeSherbrooke.qc.ca>
To: developers@phpmyadmin.net
Subject: Re: [Phpmyadmin-devel] html entitities in messages
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 07:10:06 +0000
Message-ID: <3E4A6394.40101@CollegeSherbrooke.qc.ca>
In-Reply-To: <000101c2d2a8$523e0490$0200a8c0@rabus>
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Rabus wrote:

> Hi Marc & list,
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Delisle
> 
>>there are a few html entities like &quot; and &nbsp;. Please
>>note that in FAQ 7.2 we discourage the use of those.
>>
>>Do we absolutely need the ones that are currently in english-iso?
>>
>>
> 
> We do, indeed.
> According to the XHTML specification, we M-U-S-T use entities for some
> specific characters:
> 
> &quot; for "
> &amp; for &
> &lt; for <
> &gt; for >
> 
> The &nbsp; entity (nbsp = non-breaking space) avoids line feeds at ist
> position, so it should only be used for this intention.
> 
> By the way, FAQ 7.2 says:
> 
>   "With html entities, the text on buttons would not display correctly."
> 
> This is nonsense because the botton labels are stored in attributes and
> entities are allowed there. The problem with the entities are the JS
> messages that are defined inside a <script> tag. There, HTML entities
> would not get parsed.



Ok I will clarify in the doc.

Marc




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