[whatwg] <comment> element in HTML5 Spec?

[Edward O'Connor]

> Perhaps what is needed is some kind of "in-reply-to" attribute:
>
> <article id="beer">I like beer</article>
> <article id="firstreply" in-reply-to="beer">Me too!</article>
>
> or even:
>
> <article id="beer">I like beer
>    <article id="firstreply" in-reply-to="beer">Me too!</article>
> </article>

There's the idea to borrow the in-reply-to rel value from Atom:

http://microformats.org/wiki/existing-rel-values#non_HTML_rel_values

<article id="beer">I like beer
  <article>Me too! <a rel="in-reply-to" href="#beer">&#x23ce;</a></article>
</article>