- From: Nikodem <nikn1@gazeta.pl>
- Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:18:11 +0200
- To: Christof Höke <csad7@t-online.de>
- CC: www-style@w3.org
Christof Höke wrote:
>
> hi,
> hope this is the right play to ask, well for the question:
>
> How should the following excerpt from a simple HTML page be working:
>
> <style type="text/css">
> body { color: red }
> <!-- comment -->
> body { color: blue }
> body { color: pink }
> <!-- comment -->
> body { color: green }
> </style>
>
> (see http://cthedot.de/xbrowsertest/css.html for the complete page)
>
> At least one browser (Firefox) does seem to interpret the spec
> differently than most other browsers (at least IE, Opera, have not
> testet Safari).
>
> It seems Firefox invalidates the first CSS statement following a HTML
> comment so the resulting text is pinc which is defined in the 2nd
> following statement.
>
> As far as I understand the spec <!-- and --> in CSS Stylesheets should
> be ignored so it would lead to the following sheet:
>
> body { color: red }
> comment
> body { color: blue }
> body { color: pink }
> comment
> body { color: green }
>
> which definitely has errors in it. But how should the following
> statement be handled now? Ignored as Firefox does it or acknowledged as
> others do it?
>
> thanks
> Chris
>
In my opinion, HTML comments should be handled if page is sent as
text/html (then it is needed for old UAs). If the document is a 100%
valid XHTML (MIME type application/xhtml+xml), comments are comments and
nothing else.
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