Closed Bug 412761 Opened 17 years ago Closed 17 years ago

Wrong parsing javascript after html comments

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 214476

People

(Reporter: demjanich, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11

This code show wrong html in browser:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
<body>
<!-- -------------------------- -->
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
// a = '<b>2</b>';
//-->
</script>
</body>
</html>

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Launch this code in Firefox or Netscape
Actual Results:  
2'; //-->

Expected Results:  
It must be blank page.

If change string -------------------------- in comment tags, when all ok. :)
According to the html specification you aren't allowed sequences of dashes inside comments.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 17 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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