Re: lynx-dev Bug: out commented script

[David Woolley]

> 
> Lynx will suppress the display of text in an HTML document between
> either <comment> and </comment>, or <!-- and -->. 
                                       ^^^^^^^^^^
That's an oversimplification which fails to hold for a very large number
of web pages when Lynx is in correct comment mode.  I'm not sure about
the  exact requirements on <!, but, in such a null SGML directive, and
possibly rather more generally in SGML tags -- turns on comments and --
turns off comments, so, for example:

<!----
if a > b then c;
---->
is just completely broken (an invalid tag followed by:

 b then c;
---->

with the final > unencoded.

The more common failure case is something like:
<!------>

but with 4n more -s.