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jeffcohen If an HTML page is missing a closing tag (or even badly nested markup), we want it to still work, and indeed it does. The errors are silent, and the medium is resilient. If your JavaScript is missing a closing bracket, all subsequent JS is borked (and possibly preceding too).—
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jeffcohen —that's to say that JS is _not_ resilient, and shows the error. Now that error could come from the author, but could also come from a network problem or even support of the device (i.e. old or new).