305734 - comment is buggy on EGCS site

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

The EGCS site (URL given) said that at the bottom of their page:

"Did you know that your Browser is buggy: it can't parse comments correctly. -->"

where the HTML code is:

<!--> <font size="-2">Did you know that <b>your Browser is <em>buggy</em></b>:
it can't parse comments correctly.</font> -->

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit the URL given.
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
The HTML comment shown.

Expected Results:  
The HTML comment should not be shown

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

This is because the page is in quirks mode. If it was in strict mode, the
comment will not be visible. See
<http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/quirks/quirklist.html>

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

Attachment: test case strict mode

Comment 3

[Jo Hermans]

Attachment: test case quirks mode