[thelist] consequences of invalid comment declerations
Bill Mason
evolt at accessibleinter.net
Wed Jun 18 10:52:50 CDT 2003
At 08:23 AM 6/18/2003, Dunstan Orchard wrote:
>are there any known consequences to invalid comment declerations in html?
>
>eg:
>
><!-- good comment -->
><!--- bad comment --->
While these pages are probably older ones that are being rendered in
"quirks mode" by the browsers that do sniffing for it, there can certainly
be consequences to a bad comment. Write a comment like that on a
"standards mode" rendered page, and it'll visibly break the page in
Mozilla/Netscape 6+/Gecko etc browsers as it tries to parse out what it
thinks the comments' syntax is.
This usually causes comments to become visible, and actual content to
become invisible. It's a popular bug in Bugzilla's Tech Evangelism section
for the way it destroys pages.
Bill Mason
Accessible Internet
evolt at accessibleinter.net
http://www.accessibleinter.net/
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