- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:10:34 +0300
- To: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Cc: HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Aug 10, 2009, at 17:19, Jonas Sicking wrote: > On Monday, August 10, 2009, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi> wrote: >> On Aug 10, 2009, at 14:14, Henri Sivonen wrote: >> >> >> 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?) >> >> >> >> 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? Trying it would be feasible, yeah, and I think it makes sense to try it. I think I'll create a wiki page with requirements and a proposed delta spec first, though, because others on #whatwg were interested in pondering alternative solutions given a set of requirements. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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