Re: rant - does oracle know how to design a website?
From: Shakespeare <whatsin_at_xs4all.nl>
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:21:12 +0100
Message-ID: <4b71452b$0$22934$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl>
Op 9-2-2010 11:17, mhoys schreef:
>
>> By the way (bit off topic): did anyone notice the emerging usage of
>> "'" on websites? And how IE8 does not understand this?
>>
>> Shakespeare
>
> I was not really aware of this problem until now (mainly using
> Firefox) but indeed, I could reproduce this on IE8.
> It appears that this was already a problem in IE7. This is what I
> found as explanation:
>
> "The named character reference' (the apostrophe, U+0027) was
> introduced in XML 1.0 but does not appear in HTML. Authors should
> therefore use' instead of' to work as expected in HTML 4
> user agents."
>
> So, Internet Exploder is more correct than Firefox?
>
> Matthias
>
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:21:12 +0100
Message-ID: <4b71452b$0$22934$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl>
Op 9-2-2010 11:17, mhoys schreef:
>
>> By the way (bit off topic): did anyone notice the emerging usage of
>> "'" on websites? And how IE8 does not understand this?
>>
>> Shakespeare
>
> I was not really aware of this problem until now (mainly using
> Firefox) but indeed, I could reproduce this on IE8.
> It appears that this was already a problem in IE7. This is what I
> found as explanation:
>
> "The named character reference' (the apostrophe, U+0027) was
> introduced in XML 1.0 but does not appear in HTML. Authors should
> therefore use' instead of' to work as expected in HTML 4
> user agents."
>
> So, Internet Exploder is more correct than Firefox?
>
> Matthias
>
This time it is more strict. Unforunately, I use dbms_xmlparser to parse some RSS feeds and they contain a lot of these codes. Replacing them via an XSLT does not work, they get back in again, because this package translates ' back to "'". If I use ` in the xslt, it works fine (but shows all apostrophes like this, which is hardly noticeable for end users).
Shakespeare Received on Tue Feb 09 2010 - 05:21:12 CST