Although not identical to your short "comment", Microsoft intentionally uses similar comments like
<!--[if gte mso 9]> (something read by MSIE 5+ but correctly considered to be a comment by other browsers) <![endif]--> See http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA010549981033.aspx for more info. Forrest Cahoon not speaking for merrill corporation > -----Original Message----- > From: Reinier Post [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 11:52 AM > To: libwww@perl.org > Subject: Re: HTML::Parser bug > > On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 01:51:25PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 06:02:26PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hello libwww, > > > > > > using it to parse html-forms etc... > > > noticed, that it recognizes strange comment like <!--> as > starting > > > of the comment, not like the whole empty comment, as IE. > > > > Doesn't seem like that's a valid comment. > > > > http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-html40-970917/intro/sgmltut.html#h-3.1.4 > > Well, the HTML:Parser perldoc says: > > HTML::Parser is not a generic SGML parser. We have tried to make it > able to deal with the HTML that is actually "out there", > and it normally > parses as closely as possible to the way the popular web > browsers do it > instead of strictly following one of the many HTML > specifications from > W3C. Where there is disagreement, there is often an option > that you can > enable to get the official behaviour. > > But do all versions of IE parse this the same way? > What do other popular user agents do? > > -- > Reinier >
