154987 - Space before <!-- causes problems

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[David G King]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.1a+) Gecko/20020628
BuildID:    2002062804-TRUNK

While looking at bug #148397, I noticed while looking at Page Source that  "
<!--" caused a look of HTML to be commented out. Note space before <.

This really doesn't look right to me.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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2. View Page Source


Actual Results:  Chunks of HTML are commented out.

Expected Results:  These chunks of HTML should NOT be commented out, and should
be rendered.

Comment 1

[John P Baker]

Line in question is 
 <!-- ------------------------------- -->
which has 17 pairs of '-'s and so you are still in the comment
when you get to the >

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/intro/sgmltut.html#h-3.2.4

Comment 2

[Gilles Durys]

->invalid since this is not Mozilla's fault

Boris Zbarsky has a good explanation ing bug 102127 comment 16

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This was actually a duplicate of bug 148397 in case anyone cares...