[thelist] HTML Comments and Double Hyphens on Netscape 6.1 and 6.2

[James Aylard]

Ray,

> There appears to be a bug in Netscape 6.1 and 6.2 regarding the contents
of
> an HTML comment.  Apparently, if you have two consecutive hyphens within
an
> HTML comment, it ignores the closing comment tag.

    This is due to a strict interpretation of the HTML 4.x recommendation,
which states:

"White space is not permitted between the markup declaration open
delimiter("<!") and the comment open delimiter ("--"), but is permitted
between the comment close delimiter ("--") and the markup declaration close
delimiter (">"). A common error is to include a string of hyphens ("---")
within a comment. Authors should avoid putting two or more adjacent hyphens
inside comments." [1]

1. http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/intro/sgmltut.html#idx-HTML

James Aylard