[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #6549: Output broken in wp-admin/widgets.php

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#6549: Output broken in wp-admin/widgets.php
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 Reporter:  hakre             |        Type:  defect (bug)
   Status:  new               |    Priority:  normal      
Milestone:  2.8               |   Component:  Widgets     
  Version:                    |    Severity:  normal      
 Keywords:  Output has-patch  |  
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Comment(by Denis-de-Bernardy):

 Replying to [comment:5 hakre]:
 > Replying to [comment:4 Denis-de-Bernardy]:
 > > imo, this is asking for trouble... any widget with, not just a -->,
 but also a --, will break.
 >
 > can you explain to me why even -- will break it?

 Sure. Some versions of IE or FF (can't recall) behave weird when they run
 into a -- enclosed within an html tag.

 For what it's worth, I ran into such a bug with my mediacaster plugin. The
 user had a file like:

 {{{
 [media:foo--bar.flv]
 }}}

 I can't recall how the latter got transformed by the code that would be
 outputted should have worked fine on paper. Nonetheless, one of the
 browsers would consider it was an opening comment, and proceeded to
 "comment out" the rest of the page...

 D.

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