It seems some people don’t like to give credit if they don’t like the answer, regardless of it’s accuracy, posted in response to:
Title: “CSS Browser differences. Why doesn’t Netscape work with this?”
From: private@sorry.com
Date: Jun 7 2000 12:26PM EST
Referring to the w3c spec for HTML 4.0( http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/intro/sgmltut.html#h-3.2.4 )
HTML comments have the following syntax:
Obviously IE ignores (or supports) the erroneous comment tags <-! ->. This caused NS to ignore the first style. If proper comment tags are used, it will work. NS follows the w3c specs quite closely.
BTW: if you had the life choked out of you by the big bully on the block, you’d suck.