Simple enhancement request for creating valid HTML

[c.wagner]

Hi Guy,

This should be very easy to implement and could possibly be considered a bug. When Shopsite generates the links for add to cart buttons and such, it does not generate valid HTML. Please update Shopsite so it properly escapes the "&" in the URLs is generates. ie &

Chris

[Jim]

This issue has been logged.

However, this is standard html practice by most companies as you will see if you go to almost any major site.

Here are some urls
from Google
http://www.google.com/url?q=http://maps ... pmPz9XHqPw
from Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/030726 ... d_i=507846
from Yahoo
http://maps.yahoo.com/#mvt=m&lat=39.901 ... orem&q2=ut
from Dell
http://content.dell.com/us/en/corp/d/se ... =en&s=corp
from Microsoft
http://search.microsoft.com/results.asp ... =Windows+7

In fact while I was looking for examples I didn't find any that used the & and the ones I found using just & were easy to find.

The "standards" committee, www.w3.org/, recommend using the & but there are very few that follow that recommendation. There is also not a single major browser available that does not handle the "&" character correctly in a url and because of the volume of existing html on the web it is unlikely that they will change that in the near future because it would break most existing sites.