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by hepta 3055 days ago
Doesn't seem like valid JS, you wouldn't need mark.js if that were the case.
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afandian 3055 days ago
Yes you would. JSON is valid JS, and executing JSON in a browser is a recipe for disaster.
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minitech 3055 days ago
JSON isn’t valid JS – its representation of strings allows U+2028 and U+2029 to appear unescaped, but JavaScript string literals don’t.

Not sure how else executing (valid) JSON in a browser would be a recipe for disaster? `eval` was the standard way to parse JSON from trusted sources for a long time.

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