Entities expansion test page

The purpose of this table is to test how various browsers expands HTML entities in various edge cases in order to improve compatiblity for HTML-Parser.

ent	with	without	dec	hex	hexx	ref
&	&	&&amp	&&	&&	&x	ref
'	'	&apos&aposapos	''	''	'x	ref
×	×	××times	××	××	×x	ref
€	€	&euro&euroeuro	€€	€€	€x	ref
♥	♥	&hearts&heartshearts	♥♥	♥♥	♥x	ref

overflow: 3= 33=! 333=ō 3333=അ 33333=舵 333333=񑘕 3333333=� 33333333=� 333333333=� 3333333333=� 33333333333=�

ref: &#xFx &#xFFx &#xFFFx &#xFFFFx &#xFFFFFx

Results

This table records observations of how various browsers behave with regards to expanding entities. The term "Latin-1 entites" means named entities that map to characters in the 0 .. 255 range. The term "Unicode entities" means named entities that are not "Latin-1 entities".

feature	do	don't
expand &apos;	HTML-Parser >= 3.22, FireFox 1.5, Konqueror 3.4.3, Safari 2.0	HTML-Parser <= 3.21, MSIE 7.0 beta 2
expand Latin-1 entities that are not terminated by semicolon	HTML-Parser, FireFox 1.5, Konqueror 3.4.3, MSIE 7.0 beta 2, Safari 2.0
expand prefix of Latin-1 entities in text content	HTML-Parser >= 3.40, Konqueror 3.4.3, MSIE 7.0 beta 2	HTML-Parser <= 3.38, FireFox 1.5, Safari 2.0
expand Unicode entities that are not terminated by semicolon in text content	HTML-Parser <= 3.50, FireFox 1.5, Safari 2.0	HTML-Parser >= 3.51, Konqueror 3.4.3, MSIE 7.0 beta 2
expand Unicode entities that are not terminated by semicolon in attributes	HTML-Parser <= 3.50	HTML-Parser >= 3.51, FireFox 1.5, Konqueror 3.4.3, MSIE 7.0 beta 2, Safari 2.0
expand hex entities that are not terminated by semicolon in text content	HTML-Parser, FireFox 1.5, Konqueror 3.4.3, Safari 2.0	MSIE 7.0 beta 2
expand hex entities that are not terminated by semicolon in attributes	HTML-Parser, FireFox 1.5, Konqueror 3.4.3, MSIE 7.0 beta 2, Safari 2.0