8569 2009-12-30 15:46:42 +0000 I just checked Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome and IE, and Firefox seems to be the only browser treating two subsequent HYPHEN-MINUS characters in a comment as a signature of comment end. I suggest to allow subsequent HYPHEN-MINUS characters in comments, a 2010-10-04 13:59:07 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) unspecified Other other RESOLVED WONTFIX http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#comments P3 normal LC 1 contributor ian ian mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 30294 0 contributor 2009-12-30 15:46:42 +0000 Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#comments Comment: I just checked Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome and IE, and Firefox seems to be the only browser treating two subsequent HYPHEN-MINUS characters in a comment as a signature of comment end. I suggest to allow subsequent HYPHEN-MINUS characters in comments, as long as they're not followed by a GREATER-THAN SIGN. This would make commenting out text blocks much easier. Posted from: 217.28.251.173 30876 1 ian 2010-01-11 04:52:46 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Rejected Change Description: no spec change Rationale: The reason for disallowing it is that it is disallowed in XML, not because of legacy Firefox behaviour (though that would be a valid reason also). It's the same reason we allow xmlns="" in certain places, and /> on void element start tags, and so on.