117762 - ibm.com - WebSphere app server - Bad comments in strict mode causing problems

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[crook]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20011221

I can't exactly tell what's wrong with this page and if this bug is already
opened - the page is too complicated for me.
But please take a look.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[gavin long]

The page has a DOCTYPE, which will trigger strict rendering, but is littered
with non-standard comment terminators, e.g. 
 <!---UPDATE HIGHLIGHTS SECTION--------->

See http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102127#c16
and
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102127#c17

for details of why this will cause problems.

confirming ->Tech evangelism

Contact details from the page source :
<meta name="author" content="Andrew Golden">
<meta name="email" content="[e-mail]">

Comment 2

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

taking, issues related to DOCTYPE and layout have been communicated to IBM.

Comment 3

[Olav Vitters]

*** Bug 126996 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Brant Gurganus]

bc: If your taking this bug, shouldn't you set Accept bug so it is no longer
marked as New?

Comment 5

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

only when i contact them. they have been contacted about general issues
including doctypes and comments but i haven't followed up recently.

Comment 6

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

<!--UPDATE HIGHLIGHTS SECTION--> now - others like every IBM page

Comment 7

[Susie Wyshak]

Is this fixed? Looks same to me in Gecko and IE.

Comment 8

[Karl Johan Kleist]

It seems that IBM has fixed this. The source no longer contains comments
containing "--".

Comment 9

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

yep. fixed. thx.

Comment 10

[Marcus Campbell]

Verified.