286224 - HTML <comment>...</comment> tag contents incorrectly displayed

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Rob Navarro]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050226 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050226 Firefox/1.0.1

According to my Html Goodies book <COMMENT> not displayed by browser </COMMENT>
should work as an embedded programmer comment & be ignored by browser. This is
true with IE, but is not so with Firefox.

All my searches for <COMMENT> tag support come up empty. Has the HTML world
rendered this tag obsolete?

Put the following into a file: comment.html and you'll see the top comment
displayed.

<comment> A bad comment! </comment>
<!-- A functional comment -->

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Copy following into file comments.html:
<comment> A bad comment! </comment>
<!-- A functional comment -->
2. open file in browser, you'll see top line displayed
3.

Actual Results:  
 A bad comment!

Comment 1

[Erik Fabert]

See http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/objects/COMMENT.asp

"This object is a Microsoft extension to HTML."

Comment 2

[Ali Ebrahim]

Yeah, we don't support Microsoft extensions to HTML. Please use valid commenting
technique, which is <!-- -->.