Re: Issues arising from not reparsing

On Monday, August 10, 2009, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi> wrote:
> On Aug 10, 2009, at 14:14, Henri Sivonen wrote:
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> In case #1, I think the right fix is to introduce more statefulness into the escapes so that <!-- and --> that occur inside string literals are heuristically ignored. (Anyone care to suggest a heuristic that doesn't involve rolling a JS parser into the HTML parser?)
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> A more radical way to address this would be making "..." and '...' escape </script> to cater for the document.write() case and not letting <!-- ... --> be magic.

This would be great IMHO. Can we try putting that in gecko and see if
that results in compatibility bugs?

/ Jonas