As far as I know, in all browsers that know the script element, it's a non-issue. And even though Lynx won't evaluate JS, it should certainly understand the mea

As far as I know, in all browsers that know the script element, it's a non-issue. And even though Lynx won't evaluate JS, it should certainly understand the meaning of the script element. The comments were necessary in the very beginning when the script element was new and thus might have been treated like any other part of invalid HTML – doing a best effort in rendering.