<hr><i>robert added on 2009-05-30 15:24:38:</i><br>
Yes, I saw your code, but one of my main wishes was to make it easier
to convert existing html documentation to wiki format, your solution does not do this as I would have to parse the code and wrap the comments in 'annotate' tags.  In addition I wanted the comments to be passed to the browser as one of the main uses was to include copyright/license info.

< !-- -- > is standard html/xml markup, so if its madness the whole world is mad :) Why add a new markup when an existing markup already exists? I'm not sure how asymmetry/orthogonality is relevant.  Also recognizing comments does not seem to be all that difficult.

I've put a prototype of my own pass-comments code in the [http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/timeline?t=pass-comments|robert-exp] branch. This branch can be seen working live at [http://pytrash.co.uk/cgi-bin/JavaScriptShell|JavaScriptShell].