Re: LYNX-DEV HREF pedantry

[David Woolley]

> eg  HREF="#What is new"  rather than  HREF="#What_is_new" ;
> the corresponding  NAME  lines are correct apart from the omitted  _ ;

Are fragments immune for URL encoding requirements?  Otherwise the spaces
should be %20s.

However, given that MSIE, and probably FrontPage, will accept raw spaces
in the middle of the main part of a URL, I think the be tolerant in
what you accept principle would suggest that Lynx ought to tolerate raw
spaces (and encode them before transmitting in the main part of a URL).
The original reason for denying spaces is surely that they can be
corrupted by word wrapping.

Wishlist: Lynx should have an option to turn off all the heuristics for
broken HTML (or at least as many as possible).
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