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Posted by Harlan Messinger on 12/04/07 03:53
Dylan Parry wrote:
> Harlan Messinger wrote:
>
>> Whether or not there's a trailing slash has nothing to do with the
>> conditional comments. If your page is XHTML, you need the trailing
>> slash.
>
> No you don't. It's a comment, so anything within it is simply text as
> far as any non-IE browser or parser is concerned, so it makes no
> difference whether you use the slash or not.
>
> One could in fact argue that the slash should *never* be used, as the
> code within the comment is *only* interpreted by Internet Explorer, and
> as IE doesn't support XHTML it makes little sense to include thu
> trailing slash in IE-specific code that is actually treated as comment
> text by anything else.
Good point. However, if one is making any pretense at having an XHTML
page, there should be a slash or else one should give up the pretense.
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