Tuesday, 26 January 2016

Re: Big push on testing needed

Dave Higton wrote

> In message <57e4a64755.iyojohn@rickman.argonet.co.uk>
> John Rickman Iyonix <rickman@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.

John

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John Rickman - http://rickman.orpheusweb.co.uk/lynx

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