- From: Anne van Kesteren <fora@annevankesteren.nl>
- Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 11:44:26 +0100
Quoting Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt at lachy.id.au>: > Firstly, Ian, could you please clarify what exactly made you change > your mind about this issue, after seven years of pushing (mostly) > proper SGML comment handling and which eventually resulted in 5 > implementations (Mozilla, Safari, Opera, Konqueror and Prince)? I'm interested in that as well. > I assume, of course, this now means that all of those browsers will > soon, if not already, be removing such support? Opera is working on it. Though as pointed out earlier I would like to have some more clarifications on how exactly comments are supposed to be handled. > What about the empty comment declaration: <!> ? I've never seen > anyone use it (except in test cases), and I tested it with your new > live DOM viewer tool and these were the results: Per the specification it would be an empty bogus comment. > Opera 9/Win: CRASHED! > Opera 9/Mac: CRASHED! Interesting. Note that these are not final versions. (Newer internal versions don't have this crash and do the same as Opera 8.5. As in, not exposing it in the DOM. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/>
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