On 5/1/07, Andy Mabbett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dan Champion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >If the aim is to retain the data in the body, yet render it invisible >to all users, including those of assistive technologies, what about >using a comment as the data container: I'd been thinking about that, too, but, sadly, there is no guarantee that comments will be available to a parser - some CMSs (not least Wikipedia) remove them from the output HTML; as (I've read) do some web proxies, particularly those which compress pages for use on mobile devices or slow connections.
I concur, an HTML parser should be allowed to ignore comments, and many will. The similar decision to 'hide' Javascript and other scripting languages inside HTML comments has been widely criticised and is no longer considered best practice in a lot of places, for similar reasons. -Ciaran McNulty _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
