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Andrew Garrett wrote:
> Forgive me for asking the obvious, but why on Earth do we want to be
> able to insert HTML comments? Comments are used in markup/programming
> languages, and are for the benefit of those who edit the code
> subsequently. Of course, nobody edits the parsed HTML, at least not
> directly, so it doesn't make much sense to put comments in there.
> 
> Step back from implementation, and first ask "What's the use case?"
> Without a use case, you can't hope to think of a sensible
> implementation, because so much of implementation depends on how the
> feature is to be used.

The one case I might think of is microformats that make use of
comments... but that's bad practice, since parsers can legitimately
strip comments. :D

- -- brion
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