Saving Bandwidth Through Standards Compliance, Pt. 2 Posted by timothy on Saturday March 29, 2003 @05:55AM from the sometimes-they-come-back dept. elijahao writes "In case part one of the interview with Mike Davidson of ESPN was interesting, the second part has been posted today."
& begins an entity or character reference in HTML, so a literal & needs to be escaped as &. Otherwise, you would have confusion in a case such as href="foo.cgi?bar=baz©=yes" (which is valid HTML but probably not what the author intended with that copyright sign in the URI).