[X4U] Anyone know why Safari won't load this page?

[DZ-Jay]

On Nov 7, 2005, at 05:18, Eugene wrote:
>
> Stupid Windoze web mormon enabled HTML commenting within a frame,
> but forgot to disable HTML commenting.  Result: rest of the frame
> definition is incomplete, the HTML page is incomplete and invalid,
> and nothing except the title is viewable.

Yup, its not a "weird problem" at all, just a brain-dead 
"web-developer" weenie that probably only tested the page in IE ("It 
looks fine on my computer, I must have done it right!").

As Eugene said, here's the culprit within the HTML source:

<!-----/frameset>

It starts defining the frames, and after a few lines, it opens an HTML 
comment that is never closed.  Every browser worth its salt will ignore 
anything past that line ("The developer wanted a comment, lets give him 
a comment!"), and therefore, the page is not displayed.  IE, of course, 
tries to be holier than thou and figures "naaaw, he really didn't mean 
a comment, lets do something else".  This might sound like IE is better 
than the rest, but the problem with this tactic is that IE renders the 
page in whatever form _IT_ thinks is right, not necessarily how the 
developer meant it.  Then the developer just keeps on adding stupid 
things -- especially a weenie with little experience -- until it just 
"looks right", and you end up with a mess that only IE in its own li'l 
special way.

Ah, the importance of following W3C standards and good coding practices.

	dZ.

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