245348 - Comments inside <script> tags are closed (only) after the second </script> tag

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 219504

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect)

Description

[Mauricio Collares [:collares]]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040601

In the attached testcase, a comment (<!--) inside a <script> tag is unclosed.
Mozilla closes the comment only after the second </script> tag. One would expect
the following:

* the comment to be closed after the containing <script> block is closed
OR
* the source to be commented until the end, as there is no corresponding --> tag

This happens in Quirks mode. It does not happen on Internet Explorer 6.0.3790.0
for Windows.

Comment 1

[Mauricio Collares [:collares]]

Attachment: Testcase

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This is a known issue.  Please check existing bugs no script tags and comment
parsing...  The problem is that IE's behavior is inconsistent and so far no one
has been able to really reverse-engineer it.

Comment 3

[Mauricio Collares [:collares]]

I found bugs like bug 144432, but they refer to a slightly different problem.

Comment 4

[Blake Kaplan (:mrbkap) (inactive)]

This is the same bug as bug 219504, DUPLICATE.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 219504 ***