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Why split the <script> tag when writing it with document.write()?

I have frequently seen the following statement:

document.write("<scr");
document.write("ipt language=\"Javascript\" type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"source url\"></scr");
document.write("ipt>");

What is the advantage of this? Why don’t people write the whole script, as below?

document.write("<script ");

Answer 1

This might help you:

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum91/2913.htm

Depending on the browser, the amount of other preceding javascript,
and how well-formed the overall code
is, this is done to prevent the parser
from interpreting the and
tags as executeable code
rather than as a string to be written.

I have found that it just saves headaches down the road if you do this
when using script to write script
tags.