I have saved just the following line in a file called 'test.jsp' and tried to call it through IE6.0 and Netscape 4.08.
test.jsp
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Opening of a scriptlet is <\% and closing is %>.
Netscape displays it correctly , but IE displays just this
string "Opening of a scriptlet".
Out of curiosity, I did a view-source on the page from IE, and it looks like the source content of the page is right, and it's just IE not displaying it right.
-Maha