123752 - www.winradio.net.au pages incorrectly uses sgml comments

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English Other, defect)

Description

[Catalin Ionescu]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204
BuildID:    2002020406

Some pages in the site are displayed only in part. Both IE and Opera show them
completely so I think an error in the page sources is quite unlikely.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.winradio.net.au
2. Open the Product->Software or the Company page
3. Compare to what IE displays on those pages

Comment 1

[Nick Williams]

A whole table full of information is not shown, which is strange.

Comment 2

[Michael Gabriel]

confirming, http://www.winradio.net.au/home/software.htm cotains alot of invalid
comment tags <!--- ---> which should be <!-- -->
removing those makes mozilla render the page correctly

Comment 3

[Catalin Ionescu]

This like saying that, for example, /** and **/ can not be safely used in C
instead of "classical" /* and */. It surely sounds a little bit silly to me! The
standard says that the comments must be delimited by '<!--' and '-->', not '<!--
' and ' -->'.

So I consider the pages with problems are Ok! They respect the HTML standard and
they should be properly displayed by Mozilla with no change at all!

Comment 4

[Michael Gabriel]

well, w3 validator says its wrong ...
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.winradio.net.au&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline

specs are pretty obvious http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/intro/sgmltut.html#h-3.2.4

Comment 5

[Catalin Ionescu]

Than why all other browsers properly display the page?

As a C/C++ programmer, the examples gave on the W3C page are irrelevant. They
say that comments are delimited by "<!" immediately followed by "--". There is
nothing to say that there should be "-- ". Also the comment closing sequence
seems correct as there is no strange situation like the ones they suggest. You
have the first pair giving "--" after the comment text and, after an extra '-'
that is completely insignificant, the '>' that closes the comment.

As I'm used to technical specifications and wrongly explained situations, the
W3C standard practically says that the comments in those web-pages are Ok. And
I've taken step by step the W3C description on the incriminated comments!

Comment 6

[Michael Gabriel]

this is a dupe of 115899

Comment 7

[Michael Gabriel]

hell, im having a very bad day, i mean its a dupe of Bug 103529

Comment 8

[timeless]

we don't resolve evangelism bugs as duplicates unless they're the for the same 
problem at the same site.

Comment 9

[Brant Gurganus]

Invalid HTML according to validator.w3.org.  Confirming on 2002022203/WinXP.

Comment 10

[Michael Gabriel]

code has been cleaned, WFM

Comment 11

[Michael Gabriel]

resolving as FIXED since html code has been corrected

Comment 12

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

Mass reassigning English-Other bugs to general default assignees.