Re: JavaScriptContentHeaderItem weirdness

[Tobias Gierke]

btw, a bigger issue (but one I'm too scared to touch) is that Wicket by 
default uses "text/html" as MIME type and according to the WHATWG wiki , 
CDATA has *no* effect at all unless you use an XML MIME type 
(application/xml or text/xhtml+xml):

https://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/HTML_vs._XHTML
Not sure how up-to-date this wiki page really is and whether current 
browser implementations agree with what the page says (I didn't check 
this) ... but this would mean that the whole "<![CDATA[" stuff could 
most likely be dropped from JavascriptUtils , at least if one only cares 
about modern browsers.

Cheers,
Tobias

Hi Sven,

Thanks for your response! After reading a very informative blog post 
by one of the Chrome DevTools developers 
(https://mathiasbynens.be/notes/etago), I learned there is certain 
content that is perfectly fine in pure Javascript but literally 
*impossible* to include using an inline <script/> tag, simply because 
there's no way to escape stuff properly.

So despite my earlier post, I now think what 
JavascriptUtils#writeJavaScript() does is actually correct - there's 
simply no way to do any better.