Does HTML5 change the standard for HTML commenting?

Question

Recently I found that there is, possibly, a new way of commenting in HTML5.

Instead of the typical multi-line commenting I\'ve read about

Answer 1

I don't think this is a good habit to take since stands for markup declarations like . Thus you think it's commented (well... browser will try to interpret it).

Even if it doesn't appear, this seems not to be the correct syntax for commenting HTML code.