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Can someone explain how the beginning and end of the html5shim script works?
the script starts with /*@ and ends with @*/like this:
/*@cc_on(function(a,b){function ........ (this,document);@*/
What is the /*@ @*/ doing?
I would expect the /* */ sequence to comment out all lines in between them, but since the script executes, that cant be the case here? I’m confused.
found at:
IE’s JScript supports ‘conditional compilation’, a trick of hiding special browser-specific information in comments. The idea is that
/*@...@*/is such an unusual sequence of characters that it is safe to repurpose it to introduce this new syntax-level feature.html5shiv uses it to create a piece of code that won’t even try to run on most browsers (which, like you did, will interpret the whole thing as a commend), but which has special meaning to IE.
MS doc here. No other JS engine supports this. Typically you might favour more explicit behaviour-sniffing code instead, but if you really need to detect an IE feature that doesn’t expose itself to sniffing otherwise, it can be handy.