- From: Rui del-Negro <w3validator@dvd-hq.info>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 21:47:44 -0000
- To: www-validator@w3.org
> David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk> wrote: > >> Does this mean the "--" sequence cannot exist inside comments? > > Yes. Well, I already hated the comment format used in HTML, but now I have a brand new reason. :P > Take it up with the people who designed SGML > (which is now over 20 years old). Is the fact that something is 20 (or 40, or 100) years old supposed to say anything about its quality? I can certainly think about a lot of 20-year-old standards that are terrible, as well as others that are great. Making such a common character sequence (--), which is often used as an ASCII alternative to a "long dash", illegal inside comments definitely doesn't help. If I ever come across Goldfarb, I'll be sure to slap him. ;) RMN ~~~
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