- From: Jim Jewett <jimjjewett@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 19:23:00 -0400
- To: HTML WG Public List <public-html@w3.org>
Ian Hickson wrote: > BTW, Manu, another one I just remember is the comment termination parsing > rules, specifically whether we should continue to support the --!>/-- > > comment terminators. I understand that they should not be considered conforming. But is there really any doubt that User Agents should support them for backwards compatibility? I can state from experience that there are quite a few apparently blank pages on archive.org that go back to sanity if "--!>" closes out a comment. [Admission: Some were written by me.] They obviously can't be maintained now. (And several are no longer available from the original source.) I would not have remembered these pages if I had not been able to view them in the browsers of the time. It would be perfectly fine for a validator to whine, but it would be best if the pages could still be read -- and would be properly indexed by search engines using the html5 parsing rules. -jJ
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