IIRC that's required if you want the code to work unchanged in both ancient browsers that try to display the content of script elements (the reason for the common "<!--" "// -->" hack), and in documents that are served with an XML Content-Type (where "<!--" "// -->" really is a comment, so...

I came across the following script earlier today, which made me double-take. <script type="text/javascript"><!--//--><![CDATA[//><!-- { JavaScript function removed for clarity } //--><!]]></script> Your thoughts?

http://forums.thedailywtf.com/user/CreateUser.aspx Enter a username, a password twice, an email, copy (not write) the email to the email-again field, select your timezone. Hit 'Join'. You can't? The join button is disabled. And no indication about what's wrong. Seems you can't just copy things into a...