The older browsers that jQuery doesn't support?
On 5/27/07, Matt Stith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The HTML comments are to hide the script from older browsers that dont
understand javascript.
On 5/27/07, Ⓙⓐⓚⓔ < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> why do you have <!-- comments --> instead of /* comments */ in a script?
>
>
> On 5/27/07, Network Newbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
> >
> >
> > When the function 'globalEval' is evaluating script source that
> > contains html comments (i.e. <!--), it will get 'syntax error'. html
> > comments should be stripped before execution.
> >
> > Example:
> > -script source
> > <script language=javascript>
> > <!--
> > //alert(typeof WebControls.registerListControl);
> > alert(3);
> > //-->
> > </script>
> >
> > --modifled globalEval function that fixes the issue
> >
> > globalEval: function( data ) {
> > if ( window.execScript )
> > window.execScript(
data.replace(/^\s*\<\!--.*$\n/gm,"")
> > );
> > else if ( jQuery.browser.safari )
> > // safari doesn't provide a synchronous global
> > eval
> > window.setTimeout( data, 0 );
> > else
> > eval.call( window, data );
> > }
> >
> >
>
>
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