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Re: IE6 doesn't like comments
- From: Wayne Steele <xmlmaster@hotmail.com>
- To: jmvanel@free.fr, derhoermi@gmx.net
- Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 13:57:38 -0700
Did you have the proper DOCTYPE declaration to signal to IE6 that this is
XHTML ?
<comment> was an HTML element once upon a time used to indicate comments (I
don't recall in which HTML version, it may have been proprietary).
If your HTML document does not signal that it's XHTML through the DOCTYPE
declaration, then IE6 interprets according to whatever convoluted
backwards-compatability rules it uses.
-Wayne Steele
>From: Jean-Marc Vanel <jmvanel@free.fr>
>To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
>CC: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
>Subject: Re: IE6 doesn't like comments
>Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 20:44:00 +0200
>
>I'm sorry that you consider it at this superficial level !
>Of course this doesn't depend on the ordering of tags, or on the presence
>of a <body> wrapper.
>
>Consider this :
>
><body>
> <Comment>inside tag Comment</Comment>
> <Comment2>inside tag Comment2</Comment2>
> <comment>inside tag comment</comment>
> <Description>inside tag Description</Description>
></body>
>
>The tags Comment or comment are treated differently, they are not displayed
>!
>This is an interesting example of how Microsoft implements XHTML.
>
>Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
>
> > * Jean-Marc Vanel wrote:
> > >Try to give this to Internet Explorer 6, inside a file named file.html
>:
> > >
> > ><Comment2>inside tag Comment2</Comment2>
> > ><Comment>inside tag Comment</Comment>
> > >
> > >You will see only Comment2 .
> >
> > I suppose naming the file .html triggers HTML parsing on your system and
> > IE6 considers Comment2 to appear inside <head> thus it refuses to
> > display it's content. I wonder what you are trying to achieve here. In
> > XML, the document wouldn't be well-formed since you have more than one
> > root element.
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