Re: Inconsistent behavior when encountering Java Script

[Samuel W. Heywood]

On Mon, 12 Jun 2000 20:49:11 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote:

> On Sun, 11 Jun 2000 16:04:02 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:

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> It's not the JS itself that causes the problem.
> It *is* the occurence of "<" symbols within the JS.
> Arachne interprets the "<" as the beginning of the next html tag.
> Since it is *not*.... the rest of the page doesn't get displayed.

> Attached is a prime example.

> Viewed as-is, it displays only the first image.

> If you remove the "<" symbol on line #10, the remainder of the page will
> display.

> [Attached file: lessthan.htm]

Excellent example Glenn!  I decoded the attachment and then removed the
"<" symbol on line 10 as you have instructed.  Then Arachne was able to
display the entire page.

BTW, I found that it was not at all necessary to put the "-->" symbols on
the line just above the "</SCRIPT>" tag.  L.D. and Roger say that the
rules would call for such an "end comment" line to be placed there.  I am
not implying that they might be wrong on this subject.  I myself have
never seen such a rule in any of the HTML manuals that I have studied.
Maybe myself and some others have just overlooked something important.
Dunno.

Sam Heywood
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