Roan Kattouw wrote:
That would be significantly harder to implement, and also potentially confusing. Writing an extension that implements <comment></comment> is ridiculously easy, whereas introducing new syntax of another kind would be very hard on pretty much everyone whose name isn't Tim Starling :)
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)
Agree. Much better to add a <htmlcomment> and changing it to a shorter name if needed would be trivial.
Now, some implementation details: What to with a --> inside a html comment? And -- ?