[vox-tech] html question: comments

Micah Cowan vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Thu, 15 Aug 2002 17:33:59 -0700


Peter Jay Salzman writes:
 > for the multi-line comment:
 > 
 > <!--
 >    snow:     #FFFAFA   255 250 250
 >    orange:   #FFA500   255 165 0
 >    green:    #00FF00   0 255 0
 >    blue:     #0000FF   0 0 255
 > -->
 > 
 > weblint reprots:
 > 
 >    index.html(14): metacharacter ">" should be represented as "&gt;"
 > 
 > line 14 is the last line of the comment.  the "-->" by itself.  i looked
 > at the 4.01 standard:
 > 
 >    http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/intro/sgmltut.html#h-3.2.4
 > 
 > and can't find anything wrong with this comment.   what exactly is
 > weblint complaining about?  it doesn't complain about anything else on
 > the page.

I can't find anything wrong with it either.

-Micah