Published 14 years 8 months ago • Last updated July 2, 2025 • ⏱️ < 1 min read
HTML5 decided to introduce a load of new entities, I dunno why maybe they thought it wasn't hard enough to protect against the original ones we had already. Anyway Firefox has a bug or "feature" that allows NULLS inside the entities. I tweeted it but if I don't post it here it will probably be lost in a sea of tweets. You can place NULLs before the "&" or before the ";" which allows you to construct a pretty weird entity.
javascript&0x00colon; javascript&colon0x00;
These obviously work inside a anchor href and I think in addition FF requires the HTML5 doctype.