Re: LYNX-DEV 2-7/2-8 changes of scenery

[Philip Webb]

980304 I wrote: 
> in this case the source has  <!-- ... < ... tags ... > ... -->
> & the first  >  ending a tag is read as ending the quote [ouch! comment]:
> 
> <!-- Lotus InterNotes Web Publisher 4.0 -->   [the guilty party]
> 
> <!-- rotate 0  <a href = "/cgi-bin/pft/jump/iql/contb"><img width=468 
> height=60 src="/adverts/468iql.gif" border=0  alt="IQL - Click 
> here"></a><br><p> rotate 0-->
> <!-- rotate 1  <a href = "/cgi-bin/pft/jump/iql/contb"><img width=468 
> height=60 src="/adverts/468iql.gif" border=0  alt="IQL - Click 
> here"></a><br><p> rotate 1-->
> 
> which gives
>    
>    rotate 0--> IQL - Click here
>    
>    rotate 1--> IQL - Click here   [etc].
> 
> it's awful HTML, but FT are unlikely to change their `professional' software.

it occurs to me after some needed sleep
that Historical Lynx should close a comment when it encounters  < ,
since a subsequent corresponding  >  will be read as closing the comment,
not the  < , which would be the normal intention of the coder.
something for 2-9, perhaps.

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