Wordpress modifies URL data in href's

[hexley]

Data inside an href is changed, and I do not think under any case should a user entered url be changed unless outside an href. Currently the & (ampersand) gets url encoded, as seen here:

<a href="​http://example.com/lists/?p=subscribe&#038;id=1">
should be:
<a href="​http://example.com/lists/?p=subscribe&id=1">
This of course pisses of a html validator.

I think this is also wrong:
<a href="​http://example.com/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&amp;post=119" title="Edit post">Edit This</a>

As you can see, URL encode on the ampersand again. While a browser recovers from this, the W3C expressly states you should only do this when you want to show an & on the page, not in a url that will end up in a browser.

It is now making a lot of sense why some urls emailed to others are failing on OS X mail.app

[lloydbudd]

I believe you are mistaken. ​http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/problems.html#amp

[hexley]

Yeah, sorry, I am an idiot, after reading that page more carefully, I realize they do in fact want it encoded in the href.