269104 - Two dashes incorrectly terminate a comment block early.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 214476

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect)

Description

[Adam Nielsen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041105 Firefox/0.9.1+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041105 Firefox/0.9.1+

Two dashes in the middle of a comment will terminate the comment early, but only
if a certain DOCTYPE is in use.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load the attachment to this bug in Firefox.
2. Notice the red text, which should not be visible as it is inside a HTML comment.
Actual Results:  
Some of the comment is displayed as visible text

Expected Results:  
All text in the comment tag should be hidden from view

Comment 1

[Adam Nielsen]

Attachment: Test case demonstrating the bug

Comment 2

[Oliver Klee]

This is the correct behavior. See
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/intro/sgmltut.html#h-3.2.4 .

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 214476 ***