Date: Mon, 18 Oct 93 10:11:31 +0100
From: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@www3.cern.ch>
Message-Id: <9310180911.AA01294@www3.cern.ch>
To: Terry Allen <terry@ora.com>
Subject: Re: <'s for URLs
> From: Terry Allen <terry@ora.com>
> Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1993 09:47:29 PDT
>
>But as soon as I convert unstructured text into HTML, perhaps by
>cutting and pasting, these angle brackets become dangerous. Any
>other characters would do better, even &.
Whenever you paste plain ascii into SGML you have to
replace certain characters (<>&) with entities.
And you shouldn't even be aware that it has done it: you
should see the < and the > still.
If your editing environment doesn't do it for you now,
it certainly ought to be doing it next year.
((Or you could get a NeXTStep 486 now and use WWW.app! ;-))
Tim