[whatwg] text/html conformance checkers and comments from Lachlan Hunt on 2005-07-26 (public-whatwg-archive@w3.org from July 2005)

From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 20:01:41 +1000
Message-ID: <42E60A05.9010000@lachy.id.au>

David H?s?ther wrote:
> On 2005-07-26 03:33, Lachlan Hunt wrote:
>><!>
> ...
> The only real use I've ever seen for a "null" comment declaration is to
> suppress markup as in &<!>amp;

Why not just do it properly as &amp;amp;?  That way it works for both 
HTML and XHTML, whereas your version is only valid for HTML.

-- 
Lachlan Hunt
http://lachy.id.au/

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