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Kevin Carhart <kevin@carhart.net> writes:

> ua=/</g;va=/>/g;
*SNIP*
> this one is harder to deal with because it isn't delimited by quotes?
> It gets ambiguous to know what /</ means.
> Or should this work?

Hi Kevin,
Nah, this is perfectly fine JavaScript, but Tidy-HTML5 doesn't like it.
Apparently it converts
va = /</g;
to
va = /<\/g;
when in fact it should probably just leave it alone.  I thought we'd
gotten through all of this stuff way back in October, but maybe not.

-- Chris