[whatwg] Script, style and backwards compatibility

[Ian Hickson]

On Fri, 9 May 2008, Åke Järvklo wrote:
> 2008/5/9 Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch>:
> >
> > Is there really any need to escape the contents of <script>/<style> at 
> > all These days?
> 
> I don't know - does HTML5 currently handle situations like <script 
> type="text/javascript">document.write('</script>');</script> for 
> text/html serializations?

Sure, you just do the same as you've always had to do:

 <script type="text/javascript">
  document.write('<\/script>');
 </script>

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