Closed Bug 259766 Opened 20 years ago Closed 11 years ago

971fm.net - invalid HTML comment syntax causing missing content

Categories

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: user987123, Unassigned)

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Details

User-Agent: Opera/7.54 (Windows NT 5.1; U) [en] Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10 In the page http://www.971fm.net/bbs/index.php?showtopic=2277&st=15&hl= half of the posts are missing when the page is loaded. What should be the 2nd and 3rd posts are missing and its like this all through the page. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. go to http://www.971fm.net/bbs/index.php?showtopic=2277&st=15&hl= 2. look at the page in opera, or ie and compare it with mozilla firefox and I think its in mozilla also. 3. Actual Results: Clearly visible outcome, missing text/posts. Expected Results: Fully render the page text posts. This problem has been happening since at least version .8.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8a4) Gecko/20040914 I don´t think this bug belongs to HTML:Parser, or maybe. The file is rendering in Standards compliance mode Question is, why does code blocked by invalid comments render, if the style is turned off? If you disable the style (View-Use Style->none), the missing posts are shown. I didn´t see the posts in DOM-Inspector nor Editor, but ViewSource was showing a large area of code as (green) comment. Looking at the source, I found invalid comments: <!-- THE POST 29312 --> <table width='100%' cellpadding='4' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center' height='100%'> <tr> <td align='left' class='postcolor'> <font color='' face=''><!--QuoteBegin--FaygoFreakGC+Jul 26 2003, 03:33 PM--> The invalid comment above comments out the following code, until another invalid comment restores: <!--QuoteBegin--FaygoFreakGC+Jul 26 2003, 03:36 PM--></span> For the use of multiple dashes inside comments: http://htmlhelp.com/reference/wilbur/misc/comment.html I don´t know if this bug is Invalid, Tech Evangelism, or a real Mozilla Bug showing inconsistent behaviour in regard to comments. Style enabled or not, Page Info tells: Standards compliance mode but comments are handled differently.
*** Bug 260348 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 260339 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
> Question is, why does code blocked by invalid comments render, if the style is > turned off? I see nothing like that happening here in a current trunk build. Over to evang.
Assignee: parser → english-us
Component: HTML: Parser → English US
Product: Browser → Tech Evangelism
QA Contact: english-us
Version: Trunk → unspecified
Yep, still broken, and definitely bad code.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
OS: Windows XP → All
Hardware: PC → All
Summary: missing posts and content broken web page → 971fm.net - invalid HTML comment syntax causing missing content
Page no longer exists, closing.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Product: Tech Evangelism → Tech Evangelism Graveyard
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