142167 - Mozilla confused by ASCII art within HTML comments

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 137628

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect)

Description

[Clark O. Morgan]

Visit this page:

    http://www.aracnet.com/~cmorgan/mozilla_comment_bug.html

It should show a single line of text.  It may or may not, depending on your
luck.  Immediately reload the page.  All of a sudden, ASCII art (which is
embedded within an HTML comment) appears.  Neither lynx nor IE6 expose the ASCII
art embedded within the HTML comment.  In the past, circa 0.9.8, Mozilla did not
exhibit this behavior.

The web page passes the w3c validator.

I'm using a nightly build to test this problem.  Build id: 2002050308

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

heikki, didn't you have a bug on phantom-appearing-commented-out-stuff?

Comment 2

[gavin long]

Attachment: reporter's test case

Comment 3

[gavin long]

I see this too, Win98SE, 2002042206/Branch, confirming

Comment 4

[gavin long]

Wow, freaky.  I _only_ see this problem when loading the testcase from the
reporter's URL.  I don't see the problem when loading it from the attachement I
just created, or from my local hard drive.

Comment 5

[gavin long]

Boris, you're right, this looks exaxtly like a dupe of bug 137628, even down to
not working from a local file system.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 137628 ***