I used < and > in my pages, and someone sent me an email, I beleive, saying
that it was a bad idea. I can't find an email to that effect, so I might have read
that else where. My copy of the HTML4 bible doesn't say that one method is prefered
of the other, and states that you can use the character notation, decimal, or hex to
include the codes.

I wish I could remember where I heard that. That might also have been held over from
HTML 3 or 3.2, which is what I tend to use still, since CSS doesn't work as well as
it's advertised yet.

Josh

Warp wrote:

> Josh English <eng### [at] spiritonecom> wrote:
> : Actually you should use < and > because not all the browsers understand
> : the names, but they all understand the code.
>
>   Aren't < and > part of the HTML standard? Why should we restrict
> ourselves to some browsers which do not support the standard?
>   As long as we make strictly standardized HTML, there's no problem. If a
> browser doesn't support the standard, it's the headache of the browser,
> not the maker of the page.
>   And does the HTML standard say that < means '<' (the browser might
> not be using the unicode charset)?
>
> --
> main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
> ):_;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/

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