- From: <S.N.Brodie@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 10:17:40 +0100 (BST)
- To: megazone@livingston.com (MegaZone)
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
MegaZone wrote: > > 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. 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, which users then used to terminate comments, which browser authors now have to support. As a browser author, what am I supposed to do if users complain to me that my browser is broken, when all I am doing is implementing the comment correctly? -- Stewart Brodie, Electronics & Computer Science, Southampton University. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~snb94r/ http://delenn.ecs.soton.ac.uk/
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