> this is a comment in JavaScript, which is itself inside an HTML comment
Don't nest HTML comments. Occasionaly it may break the browsers as well. (I remember this from one of the weirdest of bughunts : whenever the number of characters between nested HTML comments was divisible by four the page would render incorrectly ... or something of that sorts) i. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
