[vox-tech] html question: comments

[Peter Jay Salzman]

turns out that weblint is very dead.  hasn't been updated in a long
while.  letters to the author by me (recently), the debian package
maintainer (in 1999), and various other people (in between) have been
unanswered.

weblint.org is now just a bunch of aggresive popup ads.

too bad.  it's a useful tool.  if i were a better perl programmer, i'd
adopt it.

pete



begin Chris McKenzie <cjmckenzie@ucdavis.edu> 
> I think it is (everyone *gasp* in amazement) an engine that is not fully
> compliant.  Probably a stray and pointless < on line 14 before the -->
> will make it be quiet.
> 
> On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> 
> > 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.

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