On Tue, Jul 22, 2025 at 02:39:12AM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote: > On Mon, Jul 21, 2025 at 08:03:04AM -0700, Raymond Toy wrote: > > > As I remember, the <!-- ... --> comments are used in <style> blocks > > > (as in <script> blocks) so that web browsers that do not recognise these > > > elements do not display the contents. This was recommended when these > > > elements were first introduced to HTML even though practically all > > > browsers would recognise these elements today. > > Yeah, all browsers you probably care about support these now. If some > > browser doesn't, I assume the entire web is basically broken for them. > > Maybe we should stop outputing these strings for comments as they are more > likely to trip users up than do anything useful.
It seems that both style and script are in HTML 4, so we would not lose the conformance with HTML4 by removing the comments. In addition, if I understand well, removing the comments possible consequence on browser not supporting the elements would be rendering of what is inside the element as text, which is not so bad. -- Pat
