HTML comments in OmniWeb 2.0

[Torrey McMahon]

simonm at phantom.com wrote:
> 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.
>

There are spots on the web where you can enter your page's address and have  
it, the cgi-script attached to the page, check your HTML for you. Putting  
such a feature in OmniWeb seems too much.

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Torrey McMahon