10213 - [compatibility] ill-formed comment end marker not recognized

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect, P3)

Description

[John Bandhauer]

I mistakenly wrote an html comment like:

<!-- comment --!>
  instead of
<!-- comment -->

I noticed that Navigator 4.61 (and presumably other Nav 4.x browsers) honored
that ill-formed end marker. But Apprunner does not. In Apprunner only html
before the comment start is rendered or showed in view source.

I'm not sure if this strictness is by design or considered such an edge case as
to be worth ignoring. But it is a point of incompatibility to be noted.

I'll attach a test case.

Comment 1

[John Bandhauer]

Attachment: a simple test case

Comment 2

[rickg]

Thanks John. It's actually a regression.

Comment 3

[rickg]

Fixed by last update. Special thanks to Jband for his discovery and reporting of
this regression.

Comment 4

[bsharma]

updated qa contact.

Comment 5

[bsharma]

Verified on:
build: 2001-04-02-09-Mtrunk
platform: WinNT

The test case loads fine.