On Monday, 16 September 2013 at 16:11:15 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
BTW what's the deal with all those \xNN in the javascript?
newText += ' \x3Ca class="jumpto" href="\x23.' + a +
'"\x3E\x3Cspan class="notranslate donthyphenate"\x3E' + text
+ '\x3C/span\x3E\x3C/a\x3E';
I guess some care must be exercised so as to not confuse the
HTML/Javascript parser, but only for things like </script> and
probablt a couple more. No?
Not sure if this is the reason that applies to our case, but -
you can use < and > in inline scripts in HTML, but not in XHTML,
which must be well-formed XML. The exception is if the script
code is wrapped in a CDATA block.
