http://www.wordyard.com/2007/03/08/leaking-entities/ Technology, politics, culture Fri, 22 Aug 2008 04:03:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.wordyard.com/2007/03/08/leaking-entities/#comment-164 Firas Sat, 10 Mar 2007 02:59:30 +0000 http://www.wordyard.com/?p=1108#comment-164 Interestingly enough it's even worse than that—rather than seeing something that wasn't supposed to show through, you're seeing something that *was* supposed to be directly delivered, intercepted by mistake. If the entity was just sent to the browser, it'd show up as a space, but something escaped it midstream (turning the & character into an ampersand entity, thus making the 'nbsp;' part mean nothing to the browser). Interestingly enough it’s even worse than that—rather than seeing something that wasn’t supposed to show through, you’re seeing something that *was* supposed to be directly delivered, intercepted by mistake. If the entity was just sent to the browser, it’d show up as a space, but something escaped it midstream (turning the & character into an ampersand entity, thus making the ‘nbsp;’ part mean nothing to the browser).

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