Re: [WSG] Comment mark

2007-12-11 Thread Michael Horowitz
Ultimately IE is "right" in that you can never tell a client their site doesn't work in IE but it fits the written technical standards. A client will always prefer a non web standard site that works in IE to one that is technically correct but errors out in the worlds most popular browser. Mic

Re: [WSG] Comment mark

2007-12-11 Thread Ben Buchanan
>> For an HTML comment, you should use (no ! in the closing tag). The reason it worked in >> Firefox is that it interprets *any* instance of "--" as a closing comment tag. As far as I know, >> all other browsers will wait until they get the standard "-->". > Firefox gets it right since these ("--"

RE: [WSG] Comment mark

2007-12-10 Thread Thierry Koblentz
>> I would like to appologize if I am off topic. I am not sure who to ask. I am using (no ! in the closing tag). The reason it worked in > Firefox is that it interprets *any* instance of "--" as a closing comment tag. As far as I know, > all other browsers will wait until they get the standard

Re: [WSG] Comment mark

2007-12-10 Thread Ben Buchanan
On 10/12/2007, Hayden's Harness Attachment <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would like to appologize if I am off topic. I am not sure who to ask. I > am using (no ! in the closing tag). The reason it worked in Firefox is that it interprets *any* instance of "--" as a closing comment tag. As far as

Re: [WSG] Comment mark

2007-12-10 Thread Hayden's Harness Attachment
Matthew Thank you for the help. Angus *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [WSG] Comment mark

2007-12-09 Thread Kepler Gelotte
Hi Angus, The comment you use depends on the context. If you are in a PHP interpreted section, use /* ... */ (for a block comment), // or # (for commenting out the rest of a line). The syntax you are using works in (X)HTML and as John points out your syntax is incorrect. You also cannot have two

Re: [WSG] Comment mark

2007-12-09 Thread krugonN
Thanks, I didn't know that, I'm very knew to PHP :D Gonzalo González Mora On Dec 10, 2007 3:44 AM, Matthew Pennell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/10/07, krugonN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > To comment a line in PHP code you should use // or you can comment a > > block using /* */ > > >

Re: [WSG] Comment mark

2007-12-09 Thread Matthew Pennell
On 12/10/07, krugonN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > To comment a line in PHP code you should use // or you can comment a block > using /* */ > Or you can also use an octothorpe: # to comment out a single line in PHP. - Matthew ***

Re: [WSG] Comment mark

2007-12-09 Thread John Faulds
It should be: (no 2nd !). On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:40:52 +1000, Hayden's Harness Attachment <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: [WSG] Comment mark

2007-12-09 Thread krugonN
To comment a line in PHP code you should use // or you can comment a block using /* */ Gonzalo González Mora On Dec 10, 2007 2:40 AM, Hayden's Harness Attachment <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to appologize if I am off topic. I am not sure who to ask. I > am using