Re: [heycam/webidl] Add [Historical] extended attribute (#929)

Maybe yes if people were not already mixing it into IDL as comments, unlike HTML events. My opinion is, why a different source when IDL already includes the info?

Looking at real world IDLs I can see some major use cases for comments inside IDL (locally searched `//` inside [here](https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript-DOM-lib-generator/tree/master/inputfiles/idl)):

1. Sectioning (e.g. Logging/Counting/etc. in Console)
2. Marking as historical
3. Showing default value for attributes (e.g. in HTML Canvas) - Maybe also something to discuss, but not totally sure
4. Others (proses)

Which shows it's not a rare convention.

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