18124 2012-07-18 17:21:41 +0000 Consider supporting ending comments with --!> in prescan. (The dashes can't overlap with <!--, though.) 2012-09-18 12:12:42 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG HTML5 spec unspecified Other other RESOLVED WONTFIX http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#documentEncoding P3 normal --- 1 contributor dave.null ian mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking robin zcorpan public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 70715 0 contributor 2012-07-18 17:21:41 +0000 This was was cloned from bug 16807 as part of operation convergence. Originally filed: 2012-04-20 13:38:00 +0000 ================================================================================ #0 contributor@whatwg.org 2012-04-20 13:38:44 +0000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/parsing.html Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#documentEncoding Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#documentEncoding Comment: Consider supporting ending comments with --!> in prescan. (The dashes can't overlap with <!--, though.) Posted from: 85.227.154.145 by simonp@opera.com User agent: Opera/9.80 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7.3; U; en) Presto/2.10.229 Version/11.62 ================================================================================ #1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-04-20 18:37:34 +0000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unless there's a compelling reason to do so, I can't see my considering this for very long... ================================================================================ #2 Simon Pieters 2012-04-20 19:30:05 +0000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It would make the prescan find charset declarations after <!-- --!> comments, which prevents scripts from running twice if the parser decides to change the encoding... $ grep -aEihzZB2 "<\!-[-]([^-]|-[^-]|-[-][^>])*-[-]\!>.+text/html[[:space:]]*;[[:space:]]*charset[[:space:]]*=" web200904 > bang-comment-then-encoding.txt Seems only two pages in this data set match, but they have an encoding decl before the comment as well. ================================================================================ 74026 1 robin 2012-09-18 12:12:42 +0000 Same decision as https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=16807