[PATCH] Acid2 comment fix

Ivor Hewitt ivor at ivor.org
Tue May 17 10:38:14 BST 2005


On Tuesday 17 May 2005 10:27, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> Am Dienstag 17 Mai 2005 01:37 schrieb Ivor Hewitt:
> > Hi,
> >
> > This is a patch for Dave Hyatt's acid comment fix (acid6.txt), the logic
> > looks correct. i.e. the parseComment now ignores anything between paired
> > "--"'s within a comment block.
> > Is there any reason not to have this? or is there a more elegant way of
> > doing this? or is this simply considered an "unnecessary SGML legacy"?
>
> You better provide at least some test cases that show it's necessary and
> how other browsers behave. Fixing this for one web page can easily break it
> for tons of others ;(
>
Hi,
Indeed. I was just using this description as a reference:
http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/wilbur/misc/comment.html

Cheers,

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Ivor Hewitt.
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