Re: [whatwg] Parsing: comment tokenization

The statements about comments can be both true in the following way: the modern user agents may accept invalid comments while the ancient ones did not do it, perhaps (correctly) treating

Re: [whatwg] Parsing: comment tokenization

On Sat, 7 Apr 2007, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > The tokenization section should also handle: > > > > as "correct" comments for compat with the web. This means that > > > > shows "-->" and that > > > > shows "-->". These comments are not handled (though not conformant). On Sat, 7 Apr

Re: [whatwg] Parsing: comment tokenization

On Apr 7, 2007, at 3:16 PM, Nicholas Shanks wrote: On 7 Apr 2007, at 15:47, Anne van Kesteren wrote: On Sat, 07 Apr 2007 14:27:14 +0200, Nicholas Shanks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: AFAIK browsers and other HTML clients don't currently treat these as comments, [...] Well, sorry to say, you

Re: [whatwg] Parsing: comment tokenization

On 7 Apr 2007, at 23:48, David Håsäther wrote: Markup starting with " Yeah, sorry. I added the doctype bit after and forgot to go back and amend the introductory statement. Consider the question to be "tags and declarations that don't start with

Re: [whatwg] Parsing: comment tokenization

Nicholas Shanks wrote: On a related matter, does anyone know if WinIE correctly supports comments inside tags other than those that begin " ]> Markup starting with "conrete syntax), not tags. But what do you mean by support? From an SGML point of view, it's a markup error -- you can only ha

Re: [whatwg] Parsing: comment tokenization

On 7 Apr 2007, at 15:47, Anne van Kesteren wrote: On Sat, 07 Apr 2007 14:27:14 +0200, Nicholas Shanks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: AFAIK browsers and other HTML clients don't currently treat these as comments, [...] Well, sorry to say, you got your facts wrong. *sigh* I guess that means we'r

Re: [whatwg] Parsing: comment tokenization

On Sat, 07 Apr 2007 14:27:14 +0200, Nicholas Shanks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: AFAIK browsers and other HTML clients don't currently treat these as comments, [...] Well, sorry to say, you got your facts wrong. [...] -- Anne van Kesteren

Re: [whatwg] Parsing: comment tokenization

On Sat, 07 Apr 2007 13:27:14 +0100, Nicholas Shanks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 2) A double HYPHEN-MINUS delimits comments within tags, this provides compatibility with XML and SGML and changing this needlessly in HTML5 will just complicate conversion. HTML5 is not an application of SGML and

Re: [whatwg] Parsing: comment tokenization

On 7 Apr 2007, at 02:56, Anne van Kesteren wrote: The tokenization section should also handle: as "correct" comments for compat with the web. This means that shows "-->" and that shows "-->". Why on earth is this a good idea? AFAIK browsers and other HTML clients don't currently

[whatwg] Parsing: comment tokenization

The tokenization section should also handle: as "correct" comments for compat with the web. This means that shows "-->" and that shows "-->". -- Anne van Kesteren