Handling bad comments

Dale Amon amon at twin-peaks.gpl.net
Thu Aug 3 02:34:08 PDT 1995


On Wed, 2 Aug 1995, Andrew Burday wrote:

> 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>
> 
> OW 1.0 never closes the comment, so it doesn't display the rest of the page.
> 
> There's an example on http://rjohara.uncg.edu/welcome.html.  (I have 
> already reported the error to the webmaster, so there's no need to bug 
> him further.)
> 

Another good example of this are the html documentation pages for
ncsa httpd - you have to edit them all by hand to fix the comments
before you can read their docs with Omniweb. 




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