49449 - inclusion of javascript from <script>

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Core :: JavaScript Engine, defect, P3)

Description

[Henrik Gemal]

IF you have a inc.js file that look like this:
document.write('<a href="http://gemal.dk">gemal.dk</a>');

and you have test.html file that look like this:

<script>
document.writeln('<script src="x.js"></script>');
</script>

you get an error. BUT if you do it like this:

<script>
document.writeln('<script src="x.js"></scr'+'ipt>');
</script>

it works!

Is this correct?

Comment 1

[Henrik Gemal]

Just talked to Brendan Eich who told me the truth about the javascript 
engine...:)

Comment 2

[Phil Schwartau]

Verifiying - 

The point seems to be this: the HTML parser interprets the first "</script>" it 
sees as the end of the JS script block.  Therefore, the inner end-script tag 
should be escaped as "<\/script>", and everything will work fine -