Handling bad comments

[Christian Neuss]

> I think this one has come up before, but among the many modifications
> to  handle bad HTML, it would be great if you could handle comments
> that  aren't closed properly.  E.g:
>
> <!-- This is bad html>
>

[munch]
> Again, no criticism of OW implied.  This is bad html.  But it would be
> great if OW could handle it gracefully.

I must disagree.. handling comments correctly (like OmniWeb does) allows
for "commenting out" not only text, but complete HTML code. An example:
<!-- this is the <I> text </I> as it was before -->
won't be displayed at all.

By accepting every ">" as the end of comment, the text will be displayed
like this:
as it was before -->

Thius leads to having to delete every ">" when commenting out long passages
of HTML. I find OW's behaviour to be not only correct, but exactly what I
need. Does anybody know how browsers other then NutScape behave?

Kind regards,
Chris
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