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Bug 14698 - The instructions for '>' say to emit the tag and then switch the tokenizer state. But emitting this tag may run an inline script. And if it does document.write(), then the tokenizer will be in the wrong state when invoked reentrantly. So switch to data s
Summary: The instructions for '>' say to emit the tag and then switch the tokenizer st...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-11-04 23:23 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-11-11 19:45 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2011-11-04 23:23:12 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#script-data-end-tag-name-state
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#script-data-end-tag-name-state

Comment:
The instructions for '>' say to emit the tag and then switch the tokenizer
state. But emitting this tag may run an inline script. And if it does
document.write(), then the tokenizer will be in the wrong state when invoked
reentrantly.  So switch to data state first and then emit the token! --djf

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-11-11 00:57:34 UTC 
See also bug 10117 where I once attempted to fix this already.
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-11-11 19:45:14 UTC 
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Status: Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: Concurred with reporter's comments.
Comment 3 contributor 2011-11-11 19:45:19 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r6825.
Check-in comment: Fix <script>document.write('...')</script> -- it turns out the tokeniser would have been in the wrong state when processing the '.'s. This is actually just fixing the cases I somehow missed in r5164.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6824&to=6825