On Tue, Jul 22, 2025 at 10:34:44AM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote: > On Tue, Jul 22, 2025 at 02:39:12AM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 21, 2025 at 08:03:04AM -0700, Raymond Toy wrote: > > > > As I remember, the <!-- ... --> comments are used in <style> blocks > > > > (as in <script> blocks) so that web browsers that do not recognise these > > > > elements do not display the contents. This was recommended when these > > > > elements were first introduced to HTML even though practically all > > > > browsers would recognise these elements today. > > > Yeah, all browsers you probably care about support these now. If some > > > browser doesn't, I assume the entire web is basically broken for them. > > > > Maybe we should stop outputing these strings for comments as they are more > > likely to trip users up than do anything useful. > > It seems that both style and script are in HTML 4, so we would not lose the > conformance with HTML4 by removing the comments. In addition, if I > understand well, removing the comments possible consequence on browser > not supporting the elements would be rendering of what is inside the > element as text, which is not so bad.
I've removed the comments for script in commit 1abdc9ae99f5 (2025-07-23).
