- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 10:55:36 +0100
On Fri, 07 Jan 2011 02:10:26 +0100, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote: > The question, I guess, is which of the following do we think is more > important: > > * Helping authors not write HTML markup that might be hard to convert to > XML, and helping authors avoid nesting comments accidentally, by > flagging "--" sequences in comments > > * Getting out of the way of authors who want to put "--" sequences in > comments, e.g. because they use "--" as a long dash (as I do all the > time!), or because they want to comment out punycoded URLs. > > Currently the spec assumes the former is more important. Personally, I > think the latter is rather more useful, but then I use "--" as long > dashes all the time! When this was last studied, the weight of argument > was on the stricter "disallow --" side of things, presumably. > > I'm open to changing this back; does anyone else have an opinion on this? I think the main concern back then was compatibility with legacy browsers. I would not mind easing the restriction as relatively soon all browsers will have HTML5 comment parsing. And given that <!-- and --> are clear delimiters disallowing -- does not make a whole lot of sense. -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/
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