After the update to Piwik 1.4 I encountered a problem with the ampersands in my Website Chooser. There the "&" became the encoded entity "&"
Attachment: The broken ampersand
ampersand.tiff
(In [4624]) Fixes #2386
why do we have to escape:'html' when the 'search field' is not there, and when it is there the code path requires no escaping...