On Fri, 07 Jan 2011 02:10:26 +0100, Ian Hickson <[email protected]> wrote:
The question, I guess, is which of the following do we think is more
important:
* Helping authors not write HTML markup that might be hard to convert to
XML, and helping authors avoid nesting comments accidentally, by
flagging "--" sequences in comments
* Getting out of the way of authors who want to put "--" sequences in
comments, e.g. because they use "--" as a long dash (as I do all the
time!), or because they want to comment out punycoded URLs.
Currently the spec assumes the former is more important. Personally, I
think the latter is rather more useful, but then I use "--" as long
dashes all the time! When this was last studied, the weight of argument
was on the stricter "disallow --" side of things, presumably.
I'm open to changing this back; does anyone else have an opinion on this?
I think the main concern back then was compatibility with legacy browsers.
I would not mind easing the restriction as relatively soon all browsers
will have HTML5 comment parsing. And given that <!-- and --> are clear
delimiters disallowing -- does not make a whole lot of sense.
--
Anne van Kesteren
http://annevankesteren.nl/
