- From: Martijn Koster <mak@surfski.webcrawler.com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 09:14:56 -0700
- To: MegaZone <megazone@livingston.com>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
In message <199606111853.LAA09597@server.livingston.com>, MegaZone writes: > Once upon a time S.N.Brodie@ecs.soton.ac.uk shaped the electrons to say... > > [...] browser authors accepted any > to terminate a comment > > IMHO - bullshit. There is no reason you have to support it. Ehr... installed base? :-) > NS 2.0 and up does not. Actually, it appears the latest and greatest from Netscape supports both :-) For example, try: <! this is not a > comment <!-- that was not a > commentary ---> in Navigator 3.0b4-96135 this prints: comment which happens to be what you want. If you do a view source the proper comment is in italics, and the first line isn't. > 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. Doesn't break if you do the above. Remember "be liberal in what you accept"... Easy enough lexer change... (he says just having done it in WebCrawler :-) -- Martijn (wishing everyone collaborated on HTML parsing...) __________ Email: m.koster@webcrawler.com WWW: http://info.webcrawler.com/mak/mak.html
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