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Why is Encoding So Confusing?

October 22, 2013 · by · in Programming · Leave a comment

To embed strings into HTML you have to escape or encode characters such as <, >, and &. To embed strings into URLs you have to encode characters like /, and ?.  JavaScript has different rules if you want to embed content in string literals.  And then if you want to embed JavaScript in HTML […]