<!--> and HTML5 from Leif Halvard Silli on 2010-02-07 (public-html@w3.org from February 2010)

From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 04:29:05 +0100
To: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Message-ID: <20100207042905207975.c4c3419d@xn--mlform-iua.no>

Is there any reasoning behind forbidding comments that looks like this: 
"<!--> -->" (Comparably, this is  not forbidden: "<!-- <!-->")

The forbidden comment is permitted in both XHTML and HTML4.  Hence it 
would be practical that it was permitted in HTML5 as well.

Is it a security concern? If yes, then how? And why aren't the other 
variant that I mentioned above, also a security concern?

Or is it a "all user agents must behave the same way" concern?  

For the record, I noticed that Webkit in Quirks mode  will interpret 
'<!-->' as a single comment.
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leif halvard silli

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