[thelist] TIP: Firefox and the double dash

jason.handby jason.handby at corestar.co.uk
Sun Nov 5 16:57:01 CST 2006


Hi Deb,


> I am now more confused... among other things the information 
> presented at the URL above says:
> 
> Authors should avoid putting two or more adjacent hyphens 
> inside comments.
> 
> [ed.... but, they also say that the following comment is ok]
> 
> <!-- this is a comment -->
> 
> I must be missing something here.  ?

The comment delimiters are <!--  and   --> . What they're saying is that
you can't put two or more adjacent hyphens within the body of the
comment (between the delimiters).

So   <!-- this comment is fine --> , but <!-- this one is not -- because
of the double hyphen --> .



Jason



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