Please QA your code, people

[giza]

theweaselking tells us that Wegman's will let you email their bakery an order for a cake, and include a custom message to display on the cake.

That's all good, but their software fails to do proper validation on the custom message for the cake. So, if you send them a Microsoft's propietary "HTML" (more like bastardized XML, but I digress), this is the result:

Comments

[simbab.livejournal.com]

ROFL.

That is HILARIOUS. I literally have tears in my eyes.

Why yes, I am losing it. :-P

[jbadger.livejournal.com]

That is so great!

[sagejackal.livejournal.com]

ROFFLES

Oh, snap! That is, by far, the best cake I have ever seen! XD

[nikvulper.livejournal.com]

I want a piece of cake with broken code on it!

[jonesybunny.livejournal.com]

Haha! Great!

[wolffit.livejournal.com]

But.. those are perfectly valid (syntactically) HTML comments... Wegman's HTML renderer is broken.

[jbadger.livejournal.com]

The correct form for comments is <-- followed by at least one white space character, although Wegman's renderer should handle that common error. But if you look at google, Wegman's only supports CML -- Cake mark up language.

[greenreaper.livejournal.com]

They have a ! after the < (http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/wilbur/misc/comment.html)

[jbadger.livejournal.com]

That is correct hmmm I wonder where my ! went?

In any case you still need a white space so
<!----> is invalid but <!-- --> is valid.

When I ran <!----> through an html validator it flagged it as an error. If designed a html rendered engine I think both forms should be looked upon as valid. There is so much out there that is no valid html. I never found a reference that states in un lit and lit phosphor if the white space is needed.

references html 4.01

I know it is defined in xhtml someplace but ehhh not searching.

[zorinlynx.livejournal.com]

Ooops.

Funny how computers HAVE to be used for everything these days. What happened to just picking up a squirty thing and writing whatever you want using frosting?

Sigh...