I still do not quite see why the existence of minifiers matters here at all. Devs who use minifiers could just choose not to use // comments (and minifiers would likely update to support them if they became standard). Regarding HTML attributes, is there a reason the treatment of CSS // comments in style attributes could not be the same as JavaScript // comments in event attributes? —Zachary “Gamer_Z.” Yaro On Aug 25, 2012 9:36 AM, "Liam R E Quin" <liam@w3.org> wrote: > On Sat, 2012-08-25 at 01:20 -0400, Zachary “Gamer_Z.” Yaro wrote: > > Just my 2¢, but how is that different from JavaScript, which can also be > > added in HTML attributes and also has minimization tools? > > When the minimization tools were written for JavaScript, JavaScript > already had comments that ran to the end of the line, so people writing > tools had to allow for it. > > CSS did (does) not have comments that go to a newline, so today it's > safe to turn newlines into spaces. > > Liam > > -- > Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ > Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ > The barefoot typographer - http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/ > Co-author <http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/Co-author>, 5th edition of > "Beginning XML" - Wiley, July 2012 > >
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