- From: Martin Gleeson <gleeson@unimelb.edu.au>
- Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 19:51:43 +1000
- To: www-html@w3.org
- Cc: S.N.Brodie@ecs.soton.ac.uk
>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.
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.
>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?
Tell them that their HTML is broken (which is true).
Cheers,
Marty.
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