Re: HTML guru to the rescue?

[Dick Margulis <margulis -at- fiam -dot- net>]

An interesting (well, maybe) side note to this thread:

Reading the message below at home, in my Netscape mail client, it makes
perfect sense. It discusses swapping a token for a symbol.

Yesterday, reading the same material in a Web email client (i.e., email
on a mail server accessed through a Web page) the quoted message from
Chris Gooch was rendered as " ... swapping < for < ..." (even though the
semicolon is missing) and several other posts in the thread behaved the
same way. When I viewed the source code on the page containing the email
message, everything was as it should be.

Mindreading browsers make it hard to say what you want to say sometimes.

Dick

dmbrown -at- brown-inc -dot- com wrote:
> 
> Chris Gooch wrote:
> >
> > ...It looks like the concensus is there's no way to do this
> > without swapping &lt for < and so on...
> 
> Don't forget the trailing semicolons!
> 
> For "<" type "&lt;" and for ">" type "&gt;" (without the quotes,
> of course, which would be "&quot;" (without the quotes, of course)).
> 
> :)
> 
>

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