Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!pyrotek.demon.co.uk!jase
From: Jason G Doig <jase@pyrotek.demon.co.uk>
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english
Subject: Dodgy HTML (was Re: MS Explorer problems)
Date: 23 Mar 1997 01:20:50 GMT
Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE)
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Web Master <ps_yaroze@interactive.sony.com> wrote:
> We've fixed this problem.(well, we think so.)

Not yet...

> than Navigator about its HTML - so a missing '--!>' on the end of some

A missing what?  See below...

> Checking out other pages, there were some other bits of dodgy HTML which
> meant that parts of pages were cut out.

Loads of pages are still broken from here.

There are two types of 'comments' causing problems...

<!-- This is not a valid comment>  (seen on the new users page)

and

<!-- Neither is this, --!> (seen on the ftp page)


According to the rfc, a comment block starts with a '<!' followed
by one or more comments, (which may have white space after them),
followed by a '>'.  Comments are delimited by '--' at the start
and end.

Which means that '<!-- comment>' is not valid, as there is no '--' to
end the comment, and so the rest of the page is commented out,
and '<!-- this --!>' causes problems, as there is a '!' between the comment
and the '>' which is not whitespace, and not strictly allowed...

Either of these cause my browser to comment out the page, which happens
on every single page on the site for me, apart from the main index...


FWIW, I'm using neither IE or NS, as I don't 'net from the PC...


Cheers,


Jase.

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