<hr /><i>jan.nijtmans added on 2012-11-08 10:31:49 UTC:</i><br />
<pre>Note that xhtml errors can result in real bugs. For
example have a look at the report list:
        [http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/reportlist]
When logged in, this page contains links &#91;copy&#93; after each
report. This link works fine on Firefox, but it doesn't work
on Internet Explorer, and this time IE is not to blame ;-)

The suggested patch makes the &#91;copy&#93; link on
the reportlist page work on both Firefox and Internet Explorer.

The reason is that the link has the form:
     http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/rptedit?rn=1&amp;copy=1
But Internet Explorer interprets that as:
     http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/rptedit?rn=1©=1
as &amp;copy is short for the copyright sign (the ';'
is not mandatory in html5).

See: [http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/named-character-references.html#named-character-references],
and note that a "copy" named character reference exists without a final ';'.
</pre>