CDATA allowed in HTML 4.01 strict

CDATA HTML 4.01 strict

[webaster]

<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[

is CDATA allowed in HTML 4.01 strict

[Bernard Marx]

[webmasterworld.com...]

[webaster]

CDATA is a sequence of characters from the document character set and may include character entities. User agents should interpret attribute values as follows:
Replace character entities with characters,

Ignore line feeds,

Replace each carriage return or tab with a single space.

[webaster]

<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[

Your script ....

//]]>
</script>

correct syntax?

[webaster]

good read about cdata

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[webaster]

better use cdata than merely comments?

implicates more browsers will read the code better?

[Rambo Tribble]

In the cold dose of reality department: There are more version 4 browsers out there than version 7.

[webaster]

cdata better or comments?

[webaster]

all I need to know is: is it perfectly safe to use CDATa in combination with HTML 4.01

[Bernard Marx]

If you are using HTML 4, then I don't believe you need CDATA tags.

[webaster]

but you can use CDATA safely in HTML 4.01 without producing parsing errors?

[Bernard Marx]

Many people suggest hiding the markers from jaavascript by using single line comments, which are already doing. If you do that, I can't see a problem.

[webaster]

have an example - without seeing the code too difficult to understand-

[webaster]

So again using HTML 4.01 strict

This is ok too use? yes or no?

<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[

Your script ....

//]]>
</script>

[Bernard Marx]

I can't see why not, but as I suggested before, you could take this to the HTML forum for confirmation from someone who knows what they're talking about.