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

On Thu, 15 May 2008 09:28:50 +0200, Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd)  
<P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk> wrote:

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> Simon Pieters wrote:
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>> Note though that // and <!-- are also javascript comments.
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> Can you provide a reference for the latter assertion ?
> SAMS "Pure JavaScript" makes no mention of "<!--",
> although it documents "//" and "/* ... */".

It's not specced anywhere AFAIK, but de facto it's equivalent to "//".

See http://tc.labs.opera.com/ecmascript/html-comments/ . (Some browsers  
also treat "-->" magically, I think, but that might not be needed for Web  
compat.)

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Simon Pieters
Opera Software