Re: backtick saving bug

Krzysztof ¯elechowski wrote:

> Internet Explorer 8 Save To Disk damages documents with backticks in
> attribute values.
>
> Steps to reproduce:
>
> 1. Create a HTML document containing the code
> <INPUT TYPE=SUBMIT VALUE="`" DISABLED >
> 2. Open the document in Microsoft Internet Explorer.
> 3. Tell Microsoft Internet Explorer to save the document to disk as
> bare HTML using ISO encoding.
> 4. Open the saved document in Microsoft Internet Explorer.
>
> Expected result:
> 4. The saved page should display the same content as the original page.
>
> Actual result:
> 4. The saved page displays the HTML code for the INPUT control.

I'm not an HTML or Javascript guru but I suspect the backquote is a special
character that must be escaped or you use a HTML character entity reference
(`) to express that character. I'm guessing but maybe the backquote
escapes an expression to be evaluated or injects code so you need to escape
it to use it as just a character. The HTML newsgroups is where you need to
visit for better gurus on HTML.

Escape it (\`), use the entity reference (`), or capture the input value
into a string and then encode that string to insert the HTML entity
characters (see the code in the following discussion on how to encode the
string).

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/fo...hreadID=256586