On Monday 22 October 2001 04:15 am, Mike Rutenberg wrote:
> If you open a Scamper and then click on the link to open SqueakLand.org,
> you get a walkback when it tries to evalute
> 	'\"153\"' asNumber
>
> The SqueakLand.org page displays fine in Internet Explorer.  The problem
> seems to be in the evaluation of the line
>
> 	document.writeln("<div ID=\"navbarOver\"> <img
> src=\"/images/nav/navbar2.gif\" width=\"153\" height=\"313\"
> usemap=\"#MapOver\" border=\"0\"> </div>" );

The big problem there is that they way they wrote the Javascript, it looks to 
the parser as if the comment is terminated earlier because of the 
end-of-comment string inside a Javascript string literal:

 153:   document.write("//--> </STYLE>");
 154: 
 155:   document.writeln("<div ID=\"navbarOver\"> <img 
src=\"/images/nav/navbar2.gif\" width=\"153\" height=\"313\" 
usemap=\"#MapOver\" border=\"0\"> </div>" );
 156: }
 157: 
 158: //-->

Line 153 should probably have been broken up into two write() calls to avoid 
confusing the parsers:

document.write("//--"); document.write("></style>");

I don't know what the standard says about this, but I'd guess that this is 
illegal HTML (since the end-of-comment string is found inside a comment).

-- 
Ned Konz
currently: Stanwood, WA
email:     ned at bike-nomad.com
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