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From: Karl Dahlke <eklhad@comcast.net>
To: Edbrowse-dev@lists.the-brannons.com
Subject: [Edbrowse-dev]   tidy script bug workaround
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2015 13:05:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150813130545.eklhad@comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150913163728.GG29720@toaster.adamthompson.me.uk>

> Doesn't this miss the also destructive </script problem?

Yes it does, but "</script>" does not seem to appear in the wild.
In other words, web developers and generators are careful not to crank out
the string "...</script>..." because </script> anywhere ends the script.
My parser has made this assumption for ten years, and it's pretty reliable.

They're more than happy to write
var a = "<script>";
but not
var a = "</script>";
the latter often written as
var a = "</scr" + "ipt>";
This too generates a tidy warning, because </s shouldn't appear,
or </ any letter for that matter,
but it does not cause trouble and does not derail the script.
So my early research suggests we're ok here.

Karl Dahlke

  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-13 17:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-13  1:22 Karl Dahlke
2015-09-13  8:17 ` Chris Brannon
2015-09-13 14:46   ` Karl Dahlke
2015-09-13 16:37     ` Adam Thompson
2015-09-13 17:05       ` Karl Dahlke [this message]
2015-09-14 17:05         ` Adam Thompson
2015-09-14 18:37           ` Chris Brannon

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