Comments on: Character Entity References are your Friends

By: Website Front-end Quality Control Considerations at MarcAmos.com

Website Front-end Quality Control Considerations at MarcAmos.com — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:08:37 +0000

[...] Proper use of character entities: I won’t get into character entity specifics in this article, since I wrote a separate article earlier and I’m lazy. Head over to the article to learn more about these little gems of HTML and be sure to use them regularly in your body content: Character Entity References are your Friends [...]

By: Chris Bloom

Chris Bloom — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:40:47 +0000

Re: numeric entities – the default XML namespace has only limited support for named entities. For instance, the non-breaking space ( ) isn’t one of them even though it’s very common. You can either define a new named entity in each XML document you create, or used the numeric entities instead.

By: Marc

Marc — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:11:51 +0000

@Tom – I agree with you 200%, but I believe the reason to use numeric entities is wider support in different character sets… or something like that.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:10:45 +0000

I use the character entities you mentioned as opposed to numeric entities because they’re much easier to remember, but used to work with a developer who insisted on numeric. What’s the most compelling reason to use one over the other?

By: Angelo

Angelo — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 23:43:58 +0000

This site has a good number of common characters. I personally dig » “»” and « “«”.