24439 2014-01-29 11:25:39 +0000 Consider removing "nor contain two consecutive U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS characters (--), nor end with a U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS character (-)" (and equivalent in the parser) since old browsers are old 2014-01-30 20:11:52 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG HTML unspecified Other other RESOLVED WONTFIX http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#text-0 P3 normal Unsorted 1 contributor ian hsivonen ian mathias mike zcorpan contributor oldest_to_newest 99408 0 contributor 2014-01-29 11:25:39 +0000 Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/syntax.html Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#text-0 Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#text-0 Referrer: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/ Comment: Consider removing "nor contain two consecutive U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS characters (--), nor end with a U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS character (-)" (and equivalent in the parser) since old browsers are old Posted from: 90.230.218.37 by simonp@opera.com User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_8) AppleWebKit/537.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/21.0.1180.90 Safari/537.1 99424 1 ian 2014-01-29 17:51:51 +0000 Isn't that for similarity with XML or something? 99475 2 zcorpan 2014-01-30 11:01:36 +0000 I think it was primarily for compat with Acid2-era browsers. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-whatwg-archive/2006Jan/0209.html But allowing it would introduce a thing where conforming text/html can't be serialized as XML without changing or dropping the comment, sure. (Do we ban non-Char in comments?) 99476 3 hsivonen 2014-01-30 11:20:06 +0000 I would prefer not expanding the set of valid documents that need mangling in order to be representable through XML-oriented APIs in a non-browser context. That such mangling is needed at all seems confusing enough to users of the Validator.nu HTML Parser and I'm not keen to make the mangling code and the error reporting code diverge more. 99495 4 ian 2014-01-30 20:11:52 +0000 Yeah. The spec intro even mentions this kind of thing (search for "Errors that involve areas that affect authors migrating to and from XHTML"). Marking WONTFIX for now.