- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:11:13 +0100
- To: "public-html-comments@w3.org" <public-html-comments@w3.org>, "Herman Venter" <hermanv@microsoft.com>
On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:17:23 +0100, Herman Venter <hermanv@microsoft.com> wrote: > I'm working on a prototype HTML5 parser for research purposes and > recently bumped into this little bit of markup: > > <SCRIPT type=text/javascript><!-- site js --></SCRIPT> > > Trawling around the Web it seems that the expectation is that the script > engine will ignore a (first?) line starting with <!--. > > The EcmaScript standard does not provide for this (at least not the last > time I've read through it), so I thought perhaps the issue will be > addressed in the new HTML5 standard. We are hoping the ECMAScript guys will at some point address this. E.g. <!-- in an external ECMAScript file has the same effect, so it does not make much sense for the HTML5 specification to say something about it. Meanwhile there is: http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Web_ECMAScript#HTML_comments -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/
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