- From: MegaZone <megazone@livingston.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 11:53:52 -0700 (PDT)
- To: www-html@w3.org
Once upon a time S.N.Brodie@ecs.soton.ac.uk shaped the electrons to say... >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. IMHO - bullshit. There is no reason you have to support it. NS 2.0 and up does not. MS 3.0 doesn't from what I've seen, but I can't comment on 2.0 off hand. The new AOL browser does not. It is *wrong* and WILL BREAK valid comments. Any browser that supports it is miserably broken and I will recommend to anyone using it that they drop 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? What any proper software author does - point them at the spec and correct *their* mistake. Implementing mistakes *deliberately* is poor design, *especially* when the BREAK THE SPEC! -MZ -- Livingston Enterprises - Chair, Department of Interstitial Affairs Phone: 800-458-9966 510-426-0770 FAX: 510-426-8951 megazone@livingston.com For support requests: support@livingston.com <http://www.livingston.com/> Snail mail: 6920 Koll Center Parkway #220, Pleasanton, CA 94566
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