207575 - aviationweather.gov - </script> tag inside of javascript string literal terminates <script> tag

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

The url above doesn't work properly.  You see a lot of script garbage at the top
of the page and a javascript error:

Error: unterminated string literal
Source File: http://aviationweather.gov/awc/pireps/menu.html
Line: 27, Column: 11
Source Code:
	output += "<script language=\"JavaScript\">setTimeout('close()',12000)

Line 27 is actually this:

	output += "<script language=\"JavaScript\">setTimeout('close()',12000)</script>";

and if you look at it in the view source window, the </script> is highlighted as
is the rest of the script text.  This indicates to me that the </script> tag is
probably being interpreted as the end of the actual script, not included in the
string literal.

Comment 1

[Christopher Hoess (gone)]

Um, that's precisely per spec. We don't want the HTML parser to have to kknow
all about Javascript (CSS, VBScript...) as well as HTML syntax; end-tags inside
of <script> and <style> should be escaped. ->Evangelism

Comment 2

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

At the same time, IE and konq have no problem with this, even if it's ill formed
(and I still think that it's questionable if it is.)

Comment 3

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

tech evang june 2003 reorg

Comment 4

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

contact info  [e-mail]

Comment 5

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

email bounced. use http://aviationweather.gov/quest/feedback.html to send to
[e-mail]

Comment 6

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

I've sent email to that account, let's see if they fix it (the page hasn't been
changed in a long time.)