Re: Document conformance and non-empty <script src>

On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:37:12 +0200, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:

>> > I suppose we could allow /* ... */, but that seems oddly specific...
>>
>> The spec could allow any text and conformance checkers could compete on
>> being useful. Or the spec can be oddly specific. :-) Note though that //
>> and <!-- are also javascript comments.
>
> I suppose if we want to support this for text/html...

Not sure I follow.


> What syntaxes do we want to allow? Only zero or more /*...*/ and //...\n
> strings with any amount of whitespace before and after?

For javascript I'd say yes and add <!--...\n to that, but then again I'm  
not a conformance checker developer. :-)

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Simon Pieters
Opera Software