303551 - phillyforchange.com - broken HTML comments

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[phillytim]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050804 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050804 Firefox/1.0+

when viewing the page http://www.phillyforchange.com/ in the mozilla browser, a
bunch of extraneous, random characters appear at the bottom of the page. 
HOWEVER if phillyforchange.com is viewed with the Internet Explorer browser, the
random characters do not show up and a clean, proper page is viewable.  this
can, and has, been produced under many nightly builds of deer park/firefox.  
the extraneous, random characters appear as such:

" + "=i;){y+ati;0=i(rof;''=y;\\\"=x.charAt(taM=j(rof{)71=+i;htgnel.x<=>j--;)71+"
+
"i,htgnel.x(nim.h;y}};)j(tArahc.x=+y{);i\";y='';for(i=0;i=i;){y+=x.charAt(j);}}y;";
while(x=eval(x));}hiveware_enkoder(); //]]> .

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  go to this website:  http://www.phillyforchange.com/
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
extraneous, random characters show up at the bottom of the page.

Expected Results:  
the characters should not show up at all.  they do not show up if Internet
Explorer is used.

Comment 1

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Looking at the source of the page, one of the big comment blocks is invalid and
so firefox is closing it early. I guess this is either Tech Envangelism or a
dupe of bug 214476

Comment 2

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

plenty of errors
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A//www.phillyforchange.com/

Comment 3

[earthsound]

Since the doctype declaration forces standards compliance mode, this is a
confirmed tech evangelism issue.

Comment 4

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

INCOMPLETE due to lack of activity since the end of 2009.

If someone is willing to investigate the issues raised in this bug to determine whether they still exist, *and* work with the site in question to fix any existing issues, please feel free to re-open and assign to yourself.

Sorry for the bugspam; filter on "NO MORE PRE-2010 TE BUGS" to remove.