Comments in HTML (fwd)
MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Mon, 10 Jun 1996 18:57:39 -0700 (PDT)
Message-Id: <199606110157.SAA13477@server.livingston.com>
Subject: Comments in HTML (fwd)
To: www-html@w3.org
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 18:57:39 -0700 (PDT)
From: MegaZone <megazone@livingston.com>
Once upon a time Rude Boy shaped the electrons to say...
>can't I thought I'd ask you lot. The question I have concerns comments
>eg. the stuff between <!-- .... -->. I realise that placing HTML within
>these can make some browsers fall over and die, but is it actually
>_Legal_ HTML or not ???
Well, it will validate according to WebTechs. I tried:
<!-- <H1>boo</H1> -->
The problem is some browsers terminate comments at the first '>' instead of
at '-->' so they will see '<!-- <H1>' as a comment and then put
'boo</H1> -->' on the users screen.
-MZ
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