From: "Paul Ranson" 

Comments have never been safely strippable from HTML.





You'll notice that there is a comment inside the HTML comment...

How should that be handled by an HTML processor that doesn't understand
'script'? The convention is to comment out the contents from an HTML pov.
This is discussed in the HTML 4.01 specification.

You may not like it, but that's how it is.

Paul

"Geo."  wrote in message news:3f9463f9{at}w3.nls.net...
> the problem is the comments now cannot be stripped out of the code.
>
> Geo.
>
> "Paul Ranson"  wrote in message
> news:3f93f88b$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > I think you won't find HTML in comments, you'll find scripts and other
> > executables. And it's to do with backward compatibility. I don't see the
> > problem. You're a Java user and advocate, you're used to a bodged
> language.
> >
> > Paul
> >
> > "Adam Flinton"  wrote
in message
> > news:3f93db4d$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > > Not so it would seem given you can chuck code & possibly more html
into
> > > the comments which would be parsed (because they're not really
comments
> > > ) thus could provide something for the interpreter to choke on.
> > >
> > > Adam
> > >
> >
>
>

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