On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. <[email protected]> wrote: > One thing to note - <comment> has already been used by IE6 and earlier > as an alternative to the <!-- --> syntax for HTML comments. They > apparently stopped supporting this in IE7, though (I can confirm that > it no longer does anything special in IE8), so we probably don't have > to worry about it. No other browser does anything special for it, it > seems, so the compat impact is apparently small enough to be ignored.
Sorry, I was using IE9 beta accidentally. IE9 beta treats <comment> like an ordinary unknown element. IE7 and IE8 both treat it like an HTML comment. That's probably sufficient backwards-incompatibility to kill the idea of using that particular name for this element. ~TJ
