Jason Liu's Personal Website

Bloody hell. I had a free minute today, so on a whim, I decided to see what my Web site looks like using the Lynx text-only Web browser. This is when I discovered that all of my XHTML comments were being displayed as part of the Web pages (?!) when viewed through Lynx. I did some poking around on the Web, and discovered that the webpages out there which claim that the <!-- ... --> comment tags have been replaced by the <![CDATA[ ... ]]> tag are wrong. The only place where the <!-- ... --> comment tags have been "replaced" by the <![CDATA[ ... ]]> tag are in the sections of your Web pages where you are embedding JavaScript or CSS in a Web page. Of course, no one, not even the venerated W3C, states this in such explicit terms. Go figure. I guess it just confirms the age-old adage that standards organizations, more often than not, confuse the very people who are trying to support the organization's standards through the use of overly ambiguous language in the specifications.