escaping " with "

[roedygr]

I was under the impression:

When you need to specify a " in the middle of text, you use the " entity to represent the character.

When you need to specify a " in the middle of a quoted attribute value, you have two ways of handling it:
<param name="say" value="He said &quot;All your base are belong to us&quot;">
<param name="say" value='He said "All your base are belong to us"'>

Yet I notice HTMLValidator does not complain about " in text. It is ok now? Was it always ok?

[Albert Wiersch]

When you need to specify a " in the middle of text, you use the &quot; entity to represent the character.

Actually, it is not necessary to use the character reference. I believe it was always technically OK... at least as far back as I can remember.

There is a still a 'legacy' option to make CSE HTML Validator complain about a direct double quote in text, should you want to enable it.