[OpenLayers-Trac] [OpenLayers] #2933: OpenLayers runs HTML5-incompatible script loading code if the UA string doesn't contain "Safari" or "MSIE"

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#2933: OpenLayers runs HTML5-incompatible script loading code if the UA string
doesn't contain "Safari" or "MSIE"
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 Reporter:  hsivonen  |       Owner:              
     Type:  bug       |      Status:  new         
 Priority:  critical  |   Milestone:  2.11 Release
Component:  general   |     Version:  2.10        
 Keywords:            |       State:              
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 OpenLayers has this bit:
         var agent = navigator.userAgent;
         var docWrite = (agent.match("MSIE") || agent.match("Safari"));
         if(docWrite) {
             var allScriptTags = new Array(jsfiles.length);
         }
         var host = OpenLayers._getScriptLocation() + "lib/";
         for (var i=0, len=jsfiles.length; i<len; i++) {
             if (docWrite) {
                 allScriptTags[i] = "<script src='" + host + jsfiles[i] +
                                    "'></script>";
             } else {
                 var s = document.createElement("script");
                 s.src = host + jsfiles[i];
                 var h = document.getElementsByTagName("head").length ?
                            document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0] :
                            document.body;
                 h.appendChild(s);
             }
         }
         if (docWrite) {
             document.write(allScriptTags.join(""));
         }

 When docWrite is false, the code that is run doesn't work in browsers that
 implement script loading and execution according to HTML5
 (http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/scripting-1.html#running-a-script). This
 includes Firefox 4 beta 7.

 To make OpenLayers work in browsers that implement script loading and
 execution according to HTML5 but that don't contain "MSIE" or "Safari" in
 the UA string, please run the document.write()-based code path in all
 browsers.

 For more information, please see http://hsivonen.iki.fi/script-execution/

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.openlayers.org/ticket/2933>
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