[uf-discuss] creators updated

Andy Mabbett andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk
Wed Jul 26 12:51:43 PDT 2006


In message <DE8843C5-1382-4EEC-9B16-01C29A1ACF1E at technorati.com>, Ryan
King <ryan at technorati.com> writes
>>> Also, ampersands in the summary, location, description or URL are not
>>> escaped to "&amp;"; likewise "<" and ">", allowing HTML tags to be
>>> included.
>>
>> This is worthy of discussion.  I think it's a feature that allow
>>HTML tags
>> to be included.
>
>To be clear, those characters are escaped when surrounded by spaces.
>That way, common usage of those characters will just work, but markup
>is still allowed.

"2<5" would seem, to me, to be a common usage.

As would "b&w television".

As would <http://www.example.com>.
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