[ic] RFC: Interchange Tags in HTML comments

[Stefan Hornburg]

On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 14:50:05 +0100
James Turnbull <james at scotwebshops.com> wrote:

> On 6 Sep 2004, at 11:10, Stefan Hornburg wrote:
> 
> > currently the Interchange parser strips HTML comments wrapping 
> > Interchange tags.
> 
> I recently discovered this 'feature' by accident and it took me a while 
> to work out where my html comment were going. However it's worth noting 
> in this thread that there is a workaround for current interchange 
> versions.
> 
> > Example:
> > <!--[data session browser]-->
> > Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; X11; Linux i686) Opera 7.54 [en]
> 
> Using the same examples...
> 
> <!-- [data session browser] -->
>   will give the desired
> <!-- Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; X11; Linux i686) Opera 7.54 
> [en] -->
> 
> > [tmp stuff]horse[/tmp]
> >
> > this works:[if scratch stuff eq horse]<[/if]
> > this works:[if scratch stuff eq horse]<![/if]
> >
> > this doesnt work:[if scratch stuff eq horse]<!--[/if]
> > this doesnt work:[if scratch stuff eq horse]-->[/if]
> 
> this works:[if scratch stuff eq horse] <!-- [/if]
> this works:[if scratch stuff eq horse] --> [/if]
> 
> Despite this i think the feature should still be dropped - it seems to 
> serve no worthwhile purpose (IMO).

Granted, the "feature" has been dropped. I left a note about that
in the UPGRADE document.

Ciao
	Racke


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