On Monday, 9 December 2013 at 08:19:49 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
Comment starts here, but inside the JavaScript block. I have no
idea how browsers handle this:
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
JavaScript comment starts and ends here:
/**/google_ad_client = "pub-5628673096434613";
Comment ends here, but inside the JavaScript block and
commented out using JavaScript:
//--></script>
It's an old trick. The comment is a HTML comment to stop browsers
that don't handle JavaScript from interpreting the JS code as
HTML. The closing bracket is commented out because the JS
interpreter fails when reading it. This is from back in the day
when IE didn't handle JS only VBScript.
