• Registered: 2005-05-11
  • Posts: 275

Topic: Source code

When viewing the page's source code via the browser, the following placeholders are shown. Should they be suppressed from outputting?

<!-- pun_alert -->
<!-- pun_announcement -->
<!-- pun_stats -->
<!-- pun_debug -->

  • From: U.S.A.
  • Registered: 2005-08-26
  • Posts: 1,607

Re: Source code

They certainly could be, but they need not be. Those are perfectly valid as HTML comments.

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  • From: Leuven, Belgium
  • Registered: 2005-06-14
  • Posts: 2,653

Re: Source code

They were made comments for the reason that needlessly replacing them wouldn't be necessary anymore.

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  • Paul
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  • From: Wales, UK.
  • Registered: 2003-08-13
  • Posts: 3,089

Re: Source code

Exactly. To surpress them you would have to run str_replace 4 times to remove things that don't actually need removing. I also think it is quite a good idea to be able to see where the optional elements would output when viewing source.