Closed Bug 577858 Opened 14 years ago Closed 14 years ago

incorrectly interprets '--'> as an end of comment block if doctype is specified

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
x86_64
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
minor

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 214476

People

(Reporter: tehek, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/5.0.375.99 Safari/533.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.6) Gecko/20100628 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.6

Firefox erroneously (?) treats 
'--'>

as end of the html comment block, if the html has doctype specified. (Tested wyth html-strict, html-transitional, xhtml-strict, xhtml-transitional, and probably others).

This problem was found on one of our websites and reported by multiple users with different OS (Vista/XP).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create an html file with the following content

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<head>
</head> 
<body>
<!-- '--'> Why do you see me? -->
</body> 
</html>

2. Open with firefox

Actual Results:  
See the commented piece of text:
Why do you see me? --> 

Expected Results:  
Nothing

Seems to be general issue.

Thx for great job guys! 

^_^ V
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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