- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 01:46:56 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Cc: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
On Tue, 5 Aug 2008, Simon Pieters wrote: > On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:37:12 +0200, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > > > > I suppose we could allow /* ... */, but that seems oddly specific... > > > > > > The spec could allow any text and conformance checkers could compete > > > on being useful. Or the spec can be oddly specific. :-) Note though > > > that // and <!-- are also javascript comments. > > > > I suppose if we want to support this for text/html... > > Not sure I follow. In XML, comments here are already allowed. > > What syntaxes do we want to allow? Only zero or more /*...*/ and > > //...\n strings with any amount of whitespace before and after? > > For javascript I'd say yes and add <!--...\n to that, but then again I'm > not a conformance checker developer. :-) I didn't add <!--, because of the confusion that would result from migrating that to XML later, and because of the uncertain situation of that construct in the JS group. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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