218719 - ibm.com - page layout broken by invalid HTML comment syntax

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect, P2)

Description

[Martin Rowe]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686) Gecko/20030827 Galeon/1.3.7 Debian/1.3.7.20030902-1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030908

http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/access/web/beta.html has a download
section which has a comment block header in the html source code. Mozilla
misinterprets the code following the comment block as a continuation of the
comment. As a result the whole section is missed out from the rendered page.
Viewing the page source shows the block syntax highlighted as a comment. Noticed
in Galeon, reproduced in Mozilla 1.4 and reproduced in the nighly build
downloaded 9/9/03. The page renders correctly in w3m, Opera, Konqueror and
Netscape 4.7x so I assume it's not a fault in the code (it looks okay to me).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Mozilla at http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/access/web/beta.html
2. Click on the 'Download the Beta' link in the Table of Contents


Actual Results:  
Nothing happens! No 'Download the Beta' section rendered.

Expected Results:  
A section titled 'Download the Beta' should appear in between 'Overview' and
'Installation/Configuration information'

A saved copy of the page (in case it is changed by IBM in the meantime) is
available at http://jamaro.homelinux.org/beta.html

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

That's because comments like these are invalid format:

<!----------------------------------------------------------------------------->

"A common error is to include a string of hyphens ("---") within a comment.
Authors should avoid putting two or more adjacent hyphens inside comments."
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/intro/sgmltut.html#idx-HTML

You may want to write to them and ask them to fix their code.

->TE

Comment 2

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

->doron

Comment 3

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

works for me. fixed.