477200 - comment ends when commenttag is a single >

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 214476

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[celaz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008121622 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008121622 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.5

as you can see in the source-code of the url above, the comment ends when the string ">" is at the end .. normally this should be "-->", aint it? 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. write lorem ipsum
2. comment some parts out
3. close one line only with >


Expected Results:  
dont comment it out

Comment 1

[Mardeg]

Selecting all the text and "View selection source" has the --> at the end, so it looks like the parser adds it automatically. Now looking for an existing bug covering this behaviour.

Comment 2

[Mardeg]

Attachment: Standards compliance mode example

as long as -- exists later on the page, the > is ignored in strict mode. This doesn't happen in quirks mode.

Comment 3

[Zeph]

"as long as -- exists later on the page, the > is ignored in strict mode. "

The above can be problematic. It's possible that the two dashes will be used in the content that a user is commenting out:
"
Hello, my name is John <br />
<!-- hello --John -->
<br />
Bye
"

the above would be printed as:
"
Hello, my name is John
--> 
Bye
"