Processing Instructions, not Magic Comments

On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Ian Hickson wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, William F. Hammond wrote:

>> No, the new user agent needs, like Amaya, to make a quick early 
>> decision about which way to go.
>
> No-one has yet suggested such a mechanism that I have not shown is
> flawed except for one, the embedded-magical-comment. 

Other than giving the pope heartburn, what's wrong with a processing
instruction?  (That's what they were invented for, after all.)

[Also, you seem to be alluding to at least one prior discussion. Can
you provide a URL?  Thanks.]


Arjun

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