Re: tidy and JavaScript from Bjoern Hoehrmann on 2001-09-19 (html-tidy@w3.org from July to September 2001)

From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 17:19:42 +0200
To: Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ignacio@openservices.net>
Cc: "'html-tidy@w3.org'" <html-tidy@w3.org>
Message-ID: <uqdhqtoeglhcag71dgasc2mv27nr8ngdg0@4ax.com>

* Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
>> >'<' should be encoded as '&lt;' in JavaScript.
>>
>> No! In HTML <script> is CDATA. CDATA elements are closed by the first
>> occurence of '<' + '/' + Letter, thus this sequence has to be split up
>> e.g. by escaping the '/', i.e. document.write("<\/p>") instead of
>> document.write("</p>").
>
>Huh. Encoding it always seemed to work for me. I guess that not all browsers
>follow the specs 100% ;)

Following the Specification, &lt; must not work.
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