[whatwg] Comment Syntax and Parsing

[Henri Sivonen]

On Jan 23, 2006, at 05:23, Ian Hickson wrote:

> Yeah. The question is do we really want to confuse people by  
> telling them
> that their comment is invalid when they write:
>
>    <!----------------------------->
>
> ...?

I'd say "yes" in order to make document conformance a good guarantee  
of compatibility including compatibility with parsers that implement  
SGML-style comments.

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