Ampersands in URLs

[Wolfgang Röckelein]

Ken Case wrote:
> I consider it very, very unfortunate that "&" was chosen as a separator  
> for query strings (since it needs to be quoted within any SGML CDATA  
> attribute), and can only conclude that that choice was made by a person  
> unfamiliar with the SGML entity specification.

Yes, this is _the_ _main_ problem in the WWW world today, almost no one pays attention to any standards and specifications. For OmniWeb I see it like Ken, stay according to the specs (since you are one of the few who reads them, you can do that) and build compatibility switches if nothing else helps.

But, on this specific problem here a few things are unclear to me. How comes that this works in Netscape? Is it because Netscape knows less &...; combinations and so is less likely to hit the problem?

  Wolfgang