HTML comments work in JavaScript too

Re:HTML comments work in JavaScript too by yohannparis on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @09:22AM (#30600154)

Now I feel old to remember doing this when adding a tiny bit of Javascript to display alert() as a cool feature.

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Re:HTML comments work in JavaScript too by nightgarden on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @10:07AM (#30600683)

Ah, the good ol' days of javascript text animations in the status bar. I remember them too

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Re:HTML comments work in JavaScript too by Kiala on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @09:30AM (#30600234)

Ah, the good old <script language="JavaScript1.2"> days.

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Re:HTML comments work in JavaScript too by samwillis on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @09:37AM (#30600324)

Worse than that I remember <script language="VBScript"> with IE, yuck!

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Re:HTML comments work in JavaScript too by masswerk on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @12:38PM (#30602855)

Don't do that, it activates negative zero! :-)

(Which is probably fine, if your background is in scientific UNIVACs.)

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