BANG! or how I gave up SGML and learned to love the browser from Len Bullard on 1996-09-24 (w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org from September 1996)

From: Len Bullard <cbullard@HiWAAY.net>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 16:27:29 -0500
To: post-comp-text-sgml@techno.com
CC: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
Message-ID: <32485241.1A8E@HiWAAY.net>

I guess it isn't exactly relevant, but in case anyone wonders
why I don't want to get too hung up on grandfathering HTML, 
here is a verbatim from the HTML Reference at the Microsoft site
delimited by the asterisks:

***********************

!

specifies that enclosed text is an author's comment.  Any text 
between the lines will not print.  You can include multiple lines 
of text between the start-tag and end-tag.

Example

<! This line of text, enclosed in an HTML page, will not display.
This second line of text will not display either.>

**********************

Sigh...

len bullard
lockheed martin

Received on Tuesday, 24 September 1996 17:19:44 UTC