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>They did not add support for encoding/decoding html entities or URLs were added. It's certainly not in core, but look how PHP flubbed that up (html_entity_dec
by justinator 3y ago
>They did not add support for encoding/decoding html entities or URLs were added.
It's certainly not in core, but look how PHP flubbed that up (html_entity_decode, htmlspecialchars_decode, htmlentities).
>No standard modules for this.
Obviously there are,
https://metacpan.org/pod/HTML::Entities https://metacpan.org/pod/HTML::Entities
The changelog goes back only to 1998, where it states,
2.14 1998-04-01
HTML:: modules unbundled from libwww-perl-5.22
That wasn't a hurtle to developers, but certainly to end users who did want to just throw a php script up and have it work.
- silvestrov 3y ago1998 is too late, it was all over. PHP was used on over 50k sites by mid-1997. https://ifj.edu.pl/private/krawczyk/php/intro-history.html https://ifj.edu.pl/private/krawczyk/php/intro-history.html Netscape Navigator was released late 1994, so this was the point of time where perl developers should have seen the light.