Isn't it odd that when Microsoft decides to ignore standards and make up their own, many people, especially those that participate in the Open Source movement balk loudly, but when it comes to HTML, people blindly follow Netscape and Microsoft into the darkness, cheering all the way?

Either you endorse open standards, or you don't. There's no middle way.

Abigail

P.S. One reason people don't use --> in their comments is that they have to cater for buggy browsers.