Re: [whatwg] text/html conformance checkers and comments

2005-07-26 Thread David Håsäther
On 2005-07-26 12:01, Lachlan Hunt wrote: > > The only real use I've ever seen for a "null" comment declaration is to > > suppress markup as in & > > Why not just do it properly as &? That way it works for both > HTML and XHTML, whereas your version is only valid for HTML. It's in no wa

Re: [whatwg] text/html conformance checkers and comments

2005-07-26 Thread Lachlan Hunt
David Håsäther wrote: On 2005-07-26 03:33, Lachlan Hunt wrote: ... The only real use I've ever seen for a "null" comment declaration is to suppress markup as in & Why not just do it properly as &? That way it works for both HTML and XHTML, whereas your version is only valid for HTM

Re: [whatwg] text/html conformance checkers and comments

2005-07-26 Thread David Håsäther
On 2005-07-26 03:33, Lachlan Hunt wrote: > [...] > As useless as the first one may be The only real use I've ever seen for a "null" comment declaration is to suppress markup as in & -- David Håsäther

Re: [whatwg] text/html conformance checkers and comments

2005-07-26 Thread Christoph Päper
Lachlan Hunt: As useless as the first one may be, Well, it's shorter than "", i.e. usable for source code emphasis.

Re: [whatwg] text/html conformance checkers and comments

2005-07-25 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Henri Sivonen wrote: What kinds of comments should a text/html HTML5 conformance checker allow? All valid SGML comments should be allowed. ... -->) Yes, all of those are supported by browsers, so there is no reason not too. But you missed two other valid variants that I can think

[whatwg] text/html conformance checkers and comments

2005-07-23 Thread Henri Sivonen
What kinds of comments should a text/html HTML5 conformance checker allow? -- Henri Sivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hsivonen.iki.fi/