FireFox and Web Page Design

[beteljuice]

Attention all codesters that use Javascript in their pages !

It would appear that FireFox is VERY fussy about some syntax that other browsers are quite happy with.

George (gwheelo) has discovered that the humble HTML comment code can make your javascript do unexpected things !

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<!-- this comment works -->

<!-- -------this comment works----- -->

<!------- this comment seems to work, but javascript may lose the plot --->

The syntax MUST be:
[less than][hyphen][hyphen][space][comment][space][hyphen][hyphen][more than]

[TNETWeather]

I would not really blame Firefox for not honoring an invalid comment line.

I've seen lots of parsers not accept the invalid ones you show above.

[beteljuice]

.. I've seen lots of parsers not accept the invalid ones you show above.

But usually that would only affect the comment line, (ie. html output) it seems that FF may crash some Javascript, even though it wasn't the script that was 'commented' incorrectly, and the script call was before the comment error !