The common developer or the common web developer? I think most web developers can go very far without ever using bit flags - especially considering that no common JavaScript or DOM APIs use them.
"And I can't think of a good reason to use entityReferenceExpansion=false..." It's all about the element of least surprise - are developers more likely to expect the syntax that they see on the page (e.g. &foo;) or something else in its place. Whatever the right answer is to that question should be made the default option and left as that.
"And I can't think of a good reason to use entityReferenceExpansion=false..." It's all about the element of least surprise - are developers more likely to expect the syntax that they see on the page (e.g. &foo;) or something else in its place. Whatever the right answer is to that question should be made the default option and left as that.