On Mon, 12 Jun 2000 04:05:42 -0400, L.D. Best wrote:
> Now, I'm not saying you're not correct ...
> On Mon, 12 Jun 2000 01:42:32 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
>> <snip> Either way I don't suppose it matters. BTW, it doesn't
>> matter how many dashes or spaces you use. You may comment out anything, even
>> legitimate and conventional HTML by the same method.
> ... but the tutorials I've been sleeping/eating/fornicating with the
> past few days are very explicit that it is <!-- two dashes and a
> space and --> space and two dashes. <G>
> l.d.
Hello L.D.:
I'm not saying you are incorrect either. If you ever thought you were wrong,
you might have been mistaken. It could quite possibly be so that the two
dashes and a space, and the space and two dashes just so happen to comprise
the "defined standard". In many cases some deviations from the standard
will also work. However, this does not provide an excuse for not complying
with standards. This and the recent message posted by Roger Turk on the same
subject are the first I've ever heard of such a standard rule for comment
lines. This is strange, for I also have read and studied several HTML
manuals, and I cannot recollect ever having come across this information
before. Of course I realize that just because I haven't found it yet
doesn't necessarily mean that it's not out there somewhere.
Sam Heywood
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