- From: <kstarsin@smtpgwy.isinet.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 10:29:13 -0400
- To: www-html@w3.org
>>The problem is that browsers have to terminate comments at the first '>'
>>beacuse, IIRC, a very early draft of the HTML 2 documentation contained a
>>misprint and browser authors accepted any > to terminate a comment . . .
>SGML has always had '-->' as the comment terminator. Browser authors
>should know enough about what they're doing to know an error as obvious
>as that when they see it.
Actually, '-->' is _not_ the SGML comment terminator. Inside '<! ... >',
'--' brackets a comment on either side; there can be multiple comments
(along with other SGML) inside '<! ... >'.
Peace,
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