On 26 January 2016 23:58:51 GMT+00:00, John Rickman Iyonix <rick...@argonet.co.uk> wrote: >Dave Higton wrote > >> In message <57e4a64755.iyoj...@rickman.argonet.co.uk> >> John Rickman Iyonix <rick...@argonet.co.uk> wrote: > >>>As far as I know javascript should ignore html comments and the >>>javascript validator does not flag them as errors >>> >>> http://www.javascriptlint.com/online_lint.php > >> My reference suggests that an HTML comment is /not/ a legal >Javascript >> comment. Perhaps you should open a discussion with the author of the >> above application. I would, of course, be very interested to know >the >> conclusion! > >It doesn't really matter now as I have changed all the comments to >"proper" JavaScript style. I don't remember where I got the idea that >html style was acceptable in JS, but the article in this link says >they are ok:- > http://www.javascripter.net/faq/comments.htm > >I will investigate further.
They must be OK to some extent, because the old advice was to encapsulate everything within <script> tags within an HTML comment to stop the script being displayed on screen. I don't know if that practice is still common, but NetSurf should probably support it if it doesn't already. (<style> tags have the same advice btw) Chris
