[whatwg] article/section/details naming/definition problems

Lachlan Hunt lachlan.hunt at lachy.id.au
Thu Sep 17 06:36:19 PDT 2009


Erik Vorhes wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 3:35 AM, Bruce Lawson<brucel at opera.com>  wrote:
>> there would also need to be a<comment>  element
>
> I'd be *slightly* concerned that confusion could arise between a
> <comment>  element and the<!-- comment syntax -->, at least in
> discussion. (I.e., what would "HTML comment" mean?)

We couldn't use a <comment> element anyway for backwards compatibility 
reasons.  IE does some weird stuff when parsing it.

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