Closed
Bug 289854
Opened 19 years ago
Closed 19 years ago
Inconsistent behaviour with HTML Comment
Categories
(Firefox :: General, defect)
Tracking
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VERIFIED
WONTFIX
People
(Reporter: mozilla, Assigned: bugzilla)
Details
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2 Related to Bug #249913, #245740, #236591 The above three bugs list HTML comments (i.e. <!-- -->) with two hyphens in them as correct/intended behaviour. If this is intended behaviour, why is it inconsistent between HTML 4.0 and HTML 4.01 DOCTYPEs? I.e., when the DOCTYPE is changed from: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> to <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> Firefox "incorrectly" parses <!-- -- --> as a comment (like IE does). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Expected Results: Firefox should act consistently between HTML 4.0 and HTML 4.01 DOCTYPEs. It should preferably treat the entire contents of <!-- <<comment>> --> as a comment; I've already stumbled across many web pages that have double-hyphens in comments, and as a result, some become unusable.
Comment 1•19 years ago
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Resolving wontfix, the inconsistencies are intended. Mozilla/Firefox endeavors to follow relevant standards documents--but not to the point of being unuseable for browsing public websites. So, there are different "modes" used; changing the DOCTYPE in your example changes the mode. Sometimes comments are parsed according to the standard, other times a more loose definition is used. This is documented at http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/quirks/. The comments quirk is documented at the very end of http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/quirks/quirklist.html
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Updated•19 years ago
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Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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