Re: [Edbrowse-dev] regex criteria interpreted as literals

[Kevin Carhart <kevin@carhart.net>]

>
> 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.

Thanks Chris!  Do you think I ought to file this in the requests tracker 
for Tidy, also a question for Geoff if you're around?

If you could share the logic with me of how the parser will disambiguate 
this, if you know, I'm interested.  I can understand why it 
would escape </ to <\/ if these two characters are indeed the beginning of 
a closing HTML tag.  So is the relevant hook for knowing whether to do 
so, the fact that we're already inside <script></script>, and you don't 
need to escape within that?
(More of a tidy question but not too far afield I dont think..)


thanks
Kevin