HTML comments in OmniWeb 2.0

simonm at phantom.com simonm at phantom.com
Sat Dec 16 14:28:09 PST 1995


From: Ken Case <kc at blegga.omnigroup.com>

> However, many browsers not written according to this spec (which is
> fairly recent) still mistakenly interpret <! This> as a comment,
> and don't display them.  Since people seem to expect that (and
> nobody relies on the other, "correct," behavior), we'll treat <!
> This> as a comment (at least, as a preference) in our next beta
> release.

__PLEASE__ add a "strict HTML" option to the Preferences... dialog box to
disable this leniency, and other Netscapisms and such. As a web designer, I
need to be able to spot places where I've mangled tags, and a Strict mode
would be _very_ appreciated.

-Simon
"Or maybe I should just make friends with weblint."


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