Stupid Tricks with JavaScript
Friday, June 9th, 2006 at 11:23 amDude, check this out
This does not throw a syntax error. First one to see through my crazy trick can take a cookie from the jar in the kitchen!
The cookie goes to Matthew (check the comments).
Explanation: You can set labels in JavaScript (as explained in an earlier post) by adding a colon to a name, and all a URL does is create a label with the name ‘http’. As the double slash is following the colon, the JavaScript interpreter only recognises a label followed by a comment.