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Bug 9987 - Attribute values should be allowed to contain ambiguous ampersands since large amounts of content on the web uses them in URLs and most or all web browsers already interpret them consistently.
Summary: Attribute values should be allowed to contain ambiguous ampersands since larg...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2010-06-23 06:37 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-04 14:55 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2010-06-23 06:37:58 UTC 
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#attributes-0

Comment:
Attribute values should be allowed to contain ambiguous ampersands since large
amounts of content on the web uses them in URLs and most or all web browsers
already interpret them consistently.

Posted from: 69.181.0.130
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-08-28 00:12:38 UTC 
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document:
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: The definition of ambiguous ampersand was changed to make this less of an issue a while back.