- From: Walter Ian Kaye <boo@best.com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 18:10:53 -0700
- To: www-html@w3.org
At 8:54p +0900 07/24/96, Ka-Ping Yee wrote:
>There is NO way to correctly parse existing documents with inline
>scripts that scatter < and > characters all over the place. Guessing
>what is LiveScript/JavaScript and what is HTML is a parsing nightmare.
>The CDATA marked section syntax that Joe English suggests above
>is easy for an author to type in, easy to parse and distinguish
>from the rest of the document. The only caveat is that the author,
>i believe, still has to watch out for strings like "]]>" in the
>code -- but that is an awful lot better than < and > everywhere.
>
>This really needs to be fixed, and it should be fixed now.
I still like my idea of putting the foreign stuff at the end,
after the </BODY> closing tag.
However, I too prefer that scripts be in external files. :)
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Walter Ian Kaye <boo@best.com> Programmer - Excel, AppleScript,
Mountain View, CA ProTERM, FoxPro, HTML
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Received on Thursday, 25 July 1996 00:05:14 UTC