282487 - Will need login. Use dlabeau pw=facts; search in Today's Science for sb000137 to see problem

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 102127

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Dennis Labeau]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Commented out text in source file causes display problems in Firefox. Source
file uses SGML comment code : <!-- ... -->



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Login to www.2facts.com using dlabeau pw==facts
2. In Today's Science (click on its tab) search for sb000137; click on article
name in hit list
3. Notice broken line at start of text block. The source code has SGML comment marks

Actual Results:  
As reported

Expected Results:  
Expected to see everything not in comments and properly formatted

Otherwise, our site performs very well in Firefox!

Comment 1

[Ben Fowler]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050216
Firefox/1.0+

WFM. The 23 lines (157-180) are commented out per the two SGML comments starting 
on line 157, as you point out.

Dup of Bug 102127 "Mozilla fails to display conformant HTML"

Comment 2

[Josh Birnbaum]

The doctype is setting the browser to standards compliance mode, so comments are
parsed per the spec.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 102127 ***